Agnieszka Dauksza, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, is currently writing her fourth book, which will be dedicated to representations of survival, failure and powerless resistance in contemporary culture.

• Introduction — Affective Avant- Gardism — Bruno Schulz’s Affective Poetics — The Periperformative as a LiteraryDevice: The Bottom Up Approaches of Witold Gombrowicz — Carrier of Memory: Leo Lipski’s Economy of Affect — The Most Sacred Matter: On Collecting and Hoarding in the Writings of Kornel Filipowicz — Heavy (Non)presence: Gombrowicz Towards the War and the Jews — The Affective Community of the WarsawUprising: Anna Świrszczyńska’s Building the Barricade — ‘Listen How Your Heart Pounds Inside Me’:Embodied Outsideness in the Poetry of Wisława Szymborska — Familiarise: The (Un)common Life of MironBiałoszewski — Affective Realism: An Introduction — The Violence of Impressions: RecognisingAffective Literature and Art — Avant- Garde Formlessness and Its Fate — Emotional Communities: Towards a Relational Interpretation — A Strange Story and a Happy End — Bibliography — Index of Notions — Index of Names