Próbując sanctum. Uwagi o czasie w "Próbie listopada" Piotra Wojciechowskiego

Author(s): Anna Gębala / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

"The Rehearsal of November", despite being in some opinions the worse of Piotr Wojciechowski’s texts, seems an interesting case in the prose of last years. The article attempts to diagnose the category of temporariness in the novel in question by the author of "Stone Bees". Peculiar character that was given to the textual time displays special connections to Christian thought and, as I am trying to show, to metaphysics stemming directly from the roots of physics itself. The construction of time in the novel not only mingles elements of humanities and natural science but also seems to give foundations of contemporary Christian novel.

Emigrant-ekspatriata w ponowoczesnej Europie XXI wieku. Studium przypadku w świetle powieści "Asystent śmierci" Bronisława Świderskiego

Author(s): Jolanta Pasterska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article thematises the issue of postmodern human condition, a literary example of which is for the author of the paper a novel by Bronisław Świderski entitled "Death Assistant". Świderski’s prose is haunted by, how Kierkegaardian, questions: how to communicate with others not being identical with them, how to testify by one’s own biography not diminishing experiences of the others – and finally – how to avoid understanding “otherness” as something worse? The 21st-century novelistic world (seeing through the eyes of Świderski) still will be full of expatriates living their homelands in search of their own, total freedom and adopting various identities. It will also be full of “strangers”, hidden under pseudonyms or foreign-sounding surnames, who precisely in the name of freedom do not want to undergo compulsory acculturation in new countries of their settlement (as Świderski points out, those attempts of cultural pressure are restrictive to above mentioned freedom). From this circumstances stems the tendency of “the elect” to isolate, to erect the walls and borders protecting them form the strangers/the others. In this context a novel "Death Assistant" may be read as a warning against the traps of postmodern times.

Zagłada jako klisza fabularna. O narracji Mariana Pankowskiego "Była Żydówka, nie ma Żydówki"

Author(s): Marta Cuber / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In the article I describe a brief history of presence and reception of the issue of Holocaust in Polish prose. If I broaden the last period of it (embracing 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century), I only do it in order to show a radical shift towards “rhetorizing” the Shoah. I therefore treat Pankowski’s narration (published in 2008) as a final effect of rendering the phenomenon of Holocaust in less and less “documental” way in literature, which has lead to making the phenomenon its own opposite, that is – most of all, a literary text. After analyzing the rhetoric of "There Was a Jewish Girl, There Is No Jewish Girl", I present the more important phenomenon, which is the author of "Rudolf’s" disabling of anti-Semitic stereotypes with the great load of farce. As a kind of critical reconnaissance, the article anticipates serious changes in the linguistic image of the Shoah in the Polish prose of last years.

Dzieło literackie wobec wydarzeń historycznych. Losy Katarzyny Radziejowskiej w polskiej prozie XX wieku

Author(s): Anna Gomóła / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Katarzyna Radziejowska, a daughter of the Płock Voivode Andrzej Radziejowski, was a well-known historical figure, resulting from the fact that in 1526 she was accused of poisoning the last princesses of Mazowsze – Stanisław and Janusz. The reasons of Piast dynasty descendants’ death remain so far unexplained. The historians (since the 19th century) as well as 20th-century writers have been trying to establish facts about what happened in the third decade of the 16th century in Mazowsze and what was Katarzyna Radziejowska’s role in it. Historical novel (also those in any way concerning the figure of Voivode’s daughter) realize various strategies; psychological (the author stresses feelings and psychological motivations), mask (he is focused on rapid and dynamic course of events in the novel), political (when he wants to present important and interesting events of the age, solve the mysteries of the past, and he does it believing that people of different times are generally alike), and last but not least, anthropological (if he is aiming at reconstructing a model of man of the age). The last one demands form the author not only creative imagination but also solid knowledge about the rendered era.

„Jać tylko w jednej ulubionej żyłem. Umarła! Wszystko straciłem” — o miłości i śmierci w Żalach Orfeusza nad Eurydyką Franciszka Dionizego Kniaźnina

Author(s): Beata Prokopczyk / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The subject deliberated upon in the present paper is the motive of death as presented in Żale Orfeusza nad Eurydyką funeral series by Franciszek Dionizy Kniaźnin. The collection in question originated in a tragic event in the life of Franciszek Zabłocki, Kniaźnin’s friend, whose beloved wife Katarzyna passed away shortly after the couple had married.

Oniryczna wędrówka duszy zmarłego. Wokół Zjawienia Emilki Jana Pawła Woronicza

Author(s): Olga Szadkowska-Mańkowska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

This article is considering the journey of the death in Woronicz’s book, Zjawienie Emilki. Work of Jan Paweł Woronicz includes vision of death girl, who tells her dreaming sister a story about things she has seen in heaven.

Obsesja śmierci w twórczości Augusta Antoniego Jakubowskiego i Heinricha von Kleista

Author(s): Ewa Modzelewska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this paper is to show the work of two romantic authors, namely Heinrich von Kleist and August Antoni Jakubowski. They were not only fascinated by death, but they also died at a young age. By analyzing their biographies, poetry and letters I will present utterly different perceptions of death

Anhelli Juliusza Słowackiego — opowieść o smutku i śmierci

Author(s): Magdalena Ciechańska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article includs an interpretation of „Anhelli”, the poem by Juliusz Słowacki and his subsequent lyric that begins with the words: „I wstał Anhelli… z grobu… za nim wszystkie duchy…”. The analysis of both works is focused on the issues of death (physical and mental /emotional), sadness, lack of hope,revival and resurrection.

„Rodzimy życie w asyście śmierci”. O matkach i córkach w poezji Anny Świrszczyńskiej i Anny Kamieńskiej

Author(s): Aleksandra Pawlik / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to comparative interpretation of Anna Świrszczyńska’s and Anna Kamieńska’s work. Using the studies on death category in poems related to birth, motherhood and the bodily relations of poems’ heroines with their parents, the author of this report demonstrates that by giving birth to a child, woman marks the newborn with the element of death.

Motyw samobójstwa we współczesnej poezji polskiej

Author(s): Đurđica Čilić-Škeljo / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Distinctive and striking motif of suicide is present in contemporary Polish poetry in two ways, either as a discussion of or an announcement of one’s own suicide, or as a reflexion, that is, lyrical interpretation of the suicide of others. On the basis of the existentialist treatment of suicide as an authentic act, the article aims to analyse similarities and differences of poetic presentation of the aforementioned types of suicide — one’s own suicide, which always remains just an idea or a possibility, and other people’s suicide, which becomes an object of post festum lyrical interpretation.

Poruszać słowem ból świadomy. Tematyzacja choroby i śmierci w ostatnich wierszach Jacka Kaczmarskiego

Author(s): Katarzyna Szkaradnik / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

In this article, on the background of “the discourse of disease”, the authoress analyses some of the works placed in that book to see how the illness and the end of life are conceptualized in them as well as considers the functions of definite poetical measures exposing experience of the disease

O doświadczeniu śmierci w poezji Edy Ostrowskiej

Author(s): Katarzyna Niesporek-Klanowska / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

Eda Ostrowska is a poet who contemplates death of her life. In the words of Stefan Chwin from the book Suicide as an Experience of Imagination, Ostrowska knows too much about the dark side of life, sees what she shouldn’t, strongly feels the pain and exceeds the designated limit of the risk. Ostrowska is rejected by society as a genuine stranger, the outsider still thinking about death. She has a strong awareness of dying, obvious transience which she expresses not only in the poetry but also in the diary I Stand in Front of You in the Body Rain. Lonely, misunderstood by people Ostrowska is living, but constantly dying. Convinced of the value of being on the other side but not having the courage to end up with her life, she finds narcotic alternative spaces which allow her to exist on the edge, to dice with death and life.

Czas, magia oraz danse macabre, czyli metafory śmierci w Pani Mabb Susanny Clarke

Author(s): Mateusz Żebrowski / Language(s): English,Polish Publication Year: 0

The article refers a metaphor of symbolic death in Susanna Clarke’s short story Mrs Mabb: time, magic, danse macabre. All of them are ingrained in an European culture, especially in ancient Celtic culture, but also in Anglo-Saxon and ancient Greece culture. The references to the “samhain” festival,danse macabre, folklore, Anglo-Saxon and Greece mythologies lead to the conclusion that Mrs Mabb is the short story, which links a lots of motives to exalt a women position in culture.

Człowiek odchodzi, pamięć pozostaje. Eufemizmy i synonimy śmierci w inskrypcjach nagrobnych na cmentarzach w Gorcach

Author(s): Julita Gamoń / Language(s): Polish,German Publication Year: 0

O ciężkiej pracy w drodze do celu. Elementy warsztatu reportera Mikołaja Krzysztofa Radziwiłła Sierotki oraz Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego — „cesarza reportażu”

Author(s): Katarzyna Ossowska-Kulińska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Perygrynacja do Ziemi Swiętej, Syrii i Egiptu written by Mikolaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł also known as Orphan is one of the most famous and commonly reviewed from the collection of the Old Polish pilgrimages. His vivid description of pilgrimage appeals to contemporary reader. While describing the itinerary of pilgrimage, he was focused on contemporary issues e.g. social interactions, economy or surrounding nature which was an innovative approach. Orphan managed to collect information not only about the Holy Land but also about local residents and their customs while following the route described by Guidem from Jerusalem. Artefact created by Orphan can be associated with work of contemporary journalists. Is it then possibile to say that Orphan has made the work on the level of journalist research? Are there any fragments of pilgrimage that can be compared to 20th century journalists reports? To find the answers to the questions above I presented the Radziwił’s description of space depicted in Ryszard Kapuscinski’s reporting style.

Terapia, splendor, sens bytu — praca w życiu Jana Lechonia

Author(s): Monika Urbańska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Jan Lechoń has not been saved due to the impressive literary production, but in the period marked by creative block he worked on other projects related to the promotion of Polish culture in the country and abroad. In his student years Lechoń was a member of several circles and societies, he was the author of great volumes of poetry as well (Karmazynowy poemat, Srebrne i czarne). He was also the author of a collection of satires Rzeczpospolita babińska and co-founder of the poet’s cafe ,,Pod Pikadorem”. In the 1930s, in Paris, as Polish culture attache, he organized many events promoting Polish literature and culture. In the period of exile in New York, ongoing the last fifteen years of his life, Lechoń returned to writing, devastated by the news from the ruined (as a result of military operations) homeland. This resulted in four volumes of poetry. In New York, as earlier in Warsaw and Paris, he acted in the cultural life, organized or co-founded several ventures, including poetry readings, anniversary, broadcasts on Radio Free Europe. He has no family and no true home, so work become the meaning of his life. Work was a way to combat depression and neurasthenia, it was also a way to deserve ,,a good necrology” and fulfill the ambition of admiration in the eyes of other people. Especially the next generation.

Strach w Zameczku Anny Mostowskiej jako narracja destabilizująca

Author(s): Weronika Pawlik-Kwaśniewska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The research methodology involves an experimental combination of two different discourses within one interpretation: a philological method and second-wave feminism. Exa¬mined in the context of logic of tosamość and écriture féminine, Strach w Zameczku is a women’s writing. I have analysed Mostowska’s novel as a subversive act. The author reviews the myth of male rationality. The paradigm of a character as a depositary and subject of mind is confronted in the article with a paradigm of an irrational female protagonist with the characteristics of Otto Weininger’s absolute woman. The isomorphism of knowledge and masculinity and the isomorphism of absence and femininity are undermined.

Literatura w krótkich spodenkach…, ale pod krawatem. O niemasowych wytworach rynku wydawniczego dla dzieci i młodzieży w kontekście problemów z określeniem adresata intencjonalnego

Author(s): Marta Szymor-Rólczak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The introduction of the article presents the state of research on the book market for children and youth and the basic problems related to this issue. One of the types of non-mass publications cataloged for children and youth — the so-called picture books — was analyzed in more detail. A review of examples of the picture book implementation and selected strategies for displaying the text and its correlation with illustrative material are presented. Particular attention was focused on the problem of the intentional recipient and adult participation in the reading process of child inculturation.

Wątki paryskie w twórczości powieściowej Włodzimierza Perzyńskiego (na przykładzie Wiosny)

Author(s): Joanna Raźny / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The subject of the work are selected spatial aspects of the novel Spring (1911) by Włodzimierz Perzyński. The Paris sequence of the story of the novel, representative of the modernist period in the writer’s work, was discussed. The focus of attention was on the cultural image of Paris at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries in the context of contemporary migration processes and poetics of space, examined by the tools of contemporary reflection on the role of space.

Negocjowanie nowoczesności w dyskursach Leszka Dunina Borkowskiego

Author(s): Tadeusz Półchłopek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Kazimierz Wyka called Leszek Dunin Borkowski is the “enfant terrible” of the Galician society. His entire life (both as an artist and a politician), being an idealistic romantic, he discoursed on constructing the new social reality understood as accomplishment of a romantic image of the world and such a need of directing human actions. Borkowski was in ‘the minority’ of his own sphere (Parochialism, 1843), venal writers (Cymbalada, 1845), religious institutions (Lech’s Prophecies, 1848) and political correctness (The Rakuski Legislative Seym with Special Attention to the Polish Mission, 1849; The First Slavic Seym in Lvov 1865–1866 by an Eyewitness, 1884). He was also in ‘the minority’ as a pertinacious critic of acknowledged authorities (A Little Bit About Stanisław Tarnowski’s Experience and Contemplations, 1892; Because of the Florian Ziemiałkowski’s Open Letter to Józef Szujski, 1867).