MOTYW AHASWERA W TWÓRCZOŚCI ALEKSANDRA WATA. OD FIGURY ZBIOROWOŚCI DO ZNAKU JEDNOSTKOWOŚCI
THE WANDERING JEW (AHASWER) THEME IN LITERARY WORKS OF ALEKSANDER WAT. FROM THE FIGURE OF COLLECTIVITY TO THE INDIVIDUALITY SIGN

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the Wandering Jew theme in literary works of Aleksander Wat. The author focuses on thosetexts which have been neglected by researchers analysing this theme. An important part of article is the analysisof Wat’s notebooks and letters to his wife. The Wandering Jew theme in literary works of Aleksander Wattransforms from the figure of collectivity into the figure of individual fate. Moreover, Wat interprets Ahaswerby means of the writer’s own life. Ahaswer in later works of Aleksander Wat begins to show a consciousnessof gulit and has a need to make atonement. An attempt of interpreting Ahaswer’s fate as a modernistic figurecan be made on the basis of chronologically last Wat’s texts pondering on the life of the Wandering Jew

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