When you read, you unconsciously those gaps. You decide (or the text guides you) that Anna’s eyes are “deep” and “dark,” but you may imagine them as brown, gray, or green. This act of filling-in is what Ingarden calls concretization .

In his seminal book The Literary Work of Art , Polish philosopher Roman Ingarden

Given the difficulty of Ingarden’s prose, follow this reading plan:

If you are searching for a , the most common English translation is by George G. Grabowicz , published by Northwestern University Press.

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