Okna Jana Potockiego
Jan Potocki’s Windows

Summary/Abstract: Mrowcewicz explores the voyeuristic element in The Manuscript Found in Saragossaby Count Jan Potocki, a book about peeping, tracking, investigating – a novel about windows, parted curtains, keyholes, mirrors; a tale of fragments, repetitions and deceptive reflections. It can be read as the capitulation of the scholar and the writer of the enlightenment, who must eventually acknowledge that humankind’s cognitivetools are imperfect, our helplessness regarding the world, which we can only perceivein fragments and reflections. In this sense Potocki’s suicide – he shot himself facinga wall – becomes symbolical.

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