The Laboratory of Discourses and Forms. Hobson’s Island and other novels by Stefan Themerson in the context of intertextual references to philosophy

Abstract

Although almost all artistic works by Stefan Themerson, a Polish and English novelist, poet, philosopher, fi lmmaker, and composer can be described metaphorically as a laboratory of forms and discourses, the main goal of the article is to focus on literary experiments contained in the text Hobson’s Island and in other novels of the writer. One of the most important types of discourse presented in Themerson’s novels is philosophical discourse. The article scrutinises the latter, keeping in mind that it co-exists with academic discourse, the refl ection on God, intertextuality and graphic experiments in his literary texts.