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Duchowe peregrynacje Gombrowicza
Gombrowicz spiritual peregrinations

Author(s): Dimitrina Hamze
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Freedom; Spirit; God; Form; irony; negation; repetition; ethics; unconditionality; Truth

Summary/Abstract: The avowed “atheist” Witold Gombrowicz is secretly worshipping the greatness of Spirit, covertly searching its traces in the In-Between-The-Forms. In the permanent oscillation between two Forms, the author builds a marvellous and invisible Spiritual tower, whose mimicking hypostases (incarnations) fill even the Interpersonal (“Godless”) Temple. The “sacral” ugliness of Yvonne “unearths” the spiritual embryos of the “sophisticated” royal society and reflecting its outlook, deformed by Spirit triggered scruples, causes her own death, bearing the sadistic seal of her aristocratic environment (Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy). The Spirit peers through and spills its magic into Fryderyk’s Director project, while it has fully infiltrated the love-filled space of Youth and Immaturity (Pornography). Pierced by the shattering Spiritual presence, Henryk cannot accept his own alignment with God and issues his own death sentence (Wedding), while the omnipotent Universe, run by the Spirit, sends the narrator a system of paradigms for proper appropriate decoding (Universe)…

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-32
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish