Wątki orfickie w twórczości Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego
Orphic threads in the work collection of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński – the topic capture attempt

Summary/Abstract: The article for Orphic threads in Herling-Grudzinski’s works is constituted by two part. The former touches upon memory and forget in the poet’s analysis of his Italian story composition titled ‘Pieta dell’ Isola’. The latter portrays a working meaning of ‘Orfeusz i Eurydyka’ myth in a late composition of the writer called ‘Madrygał żałobny’. Its protagonist is Carlo Gesulado, a famous Madrigalist active at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and a murderer of own wife and her lover. The man lives in guilt, at a verge of life and death having music to create a symbolic afterlife towards which he descends in search for the lost love Maria-Eurydyka. The key subject in Grudziński’s poetry is memory as a foundation for living in awarenesp. Memory and feel of pain become the condition to rebuild human consciousness, regain spiritual balance of the nature, of social NOMOP. Protagonist of the other part of a diptic titled ‘Skrzydła Ołtarza’ Sebastiano loses his ability to remember, see and hear; he is a victim of destiny. Nonetheless, he steps on VIA SACRA, a way full of struggle, hardship and pain in order to become the community scapegoat, purification centre for their soulp. Thus, his own soul is purified. Other threads to Orphic Motifs in the text of the composition include love of twins, the Purgatory and Purgatory souls, inheritance of guilt in the generations cycle, body Motif: imprisonment of soul, the symbol of Kronos the sun and other.

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