Fragmenty

Fragmenty is the Polish noun meaning fragments or pieces that are part of something larger but broken away. It is the plural form of fragment. The term covers both physical fragments—shards, splinters, torn pieces—and figurative fragments, such as excerpts, scraps of text, or partial records.

In archaeology and material culture, fragmenty refer to surviving pieces of artifacts, pottery, inscriptions, or architectural elements that remain after breakage. In literature and publishing, fragmenty denote short excerpts or quotations taken from longer works, or fragments of text shown as a stylistic device, often to suggest incomplete or open-ended meaning.

In arts and media, fragmentary approaches arrange a work as a sequence of fragments—images, scenes, or passages—rather than a single continuous narrative. This can appear in poetry, experimental prose, photography series, film, and music, where the emphasis is on fragment, juxtaposition, and interpretation.

Etymology: fragmenty derives from the noun fragment, ultimately from Latin fragmentum meaning a piece broken off, with the usual adaptation in Polish.