Thinking about images of the self and one’s works…
Thinking in images to create… Vladimir Nabokov: “I do not think in any language. I think in images.”; “We think not in words but in shadows of words…”
Witold Gombrowicz: “I would like people to see in me that which I suggest to them. […] “I want to be like this.” Gombrowicz is conscious about the images of the self in his works.
Nabokov creates fiction in images and then translates them into words.
Thinking in/about Images (Nabokov & Gombrowicz)
© Aleksander Bak
Both of them require from the good reader to think in images, too: a work should be thought of as an image. => method: thinking in images
Mini-poster made by Katherina Kokinova, visiting researcher, SSEES, supervisor: Dr. Katarzyna Zechenter
[email protected] Acknowledgements to: Brian Boyd, Leland de la Durantaye, Piotr Millati, Vladimir Poleganov, Vladimir Molev; Getty Images
Photo: Bogdan Paczowski
Conclusions Thinking of the work as an image serves to immortalize it as the reader has to reread it in order to see the image. Moreover, images are better memorized. Thinking in images brings closer author and reader in the realm of the abstract.
