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HOW DID I BECOME A WRITER? ETHICAL ASPECTS OF POLISH LITERARY AUTOBIOGRAPHIES OF 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY (Jak zostalem pisarzem? Aspekty etyczne polskich autobiografii literackich XIX i XX wieku)

Ewa Paczoska

Przeglad Filozoficzno-Literacki (Philosophical/Literary Review) > 2009 > 6 > 2(23) > 137-158

The article shows the ethical aspects of three major Polish literary autobiographies, representing different generations of writers. They are: 'Autobiography in the letters' of Eliza Orzeszkowa, 'My contemporaries' of Stanislaw Przybyszewski and 'Polish memories; of Witold Gombrowicz. All authors create the image of the writer as the conscience of culture, therefore, emphasize their own sense of duty,...

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WITOLD GOMBROWICZ: SCENES IN A NON-EUCLIDEAN SPACE (Witold Gombrowicz: sceny w przestrzeni nieeuklidesowej)

Maria Zadencka

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2009 > 3(117) > 63-84

The authoress proposes a statement that Gombrowicz's imagination was 'geometric'. Two contemporary mathematical theories seem to be particularly useful for a reading of his early works, fragments of poetic prose of his 'Diary' and the novel 'Kosmos'. These include the crystallographic theory of 'tesselation', that is, regular division of the space, and the assumptions of non-Euclidean geometry, which,...

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WHY WAS GUSTAW HERLING-GRUDZINSKI AFRAID OF MEETING WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ? (Dlaczego Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski bal sie spotkac z Witoldem Gombrowiczem?)

Marian Bielecki

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2008 > 3(111) > 88-110

This article explores the specific biographical and literary/intertextual relationship between Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski and Witold Gombrowicz. Their biographic relations are unclear: Herling-Grudzinski first met Gombrowicz between the two world wars but did not renew the acquaintance with Witold when WW2 was over, although both authors were contributing at that time to the Paris-based 'Kultura' monthly...

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A REVIEW OF TOMASZ BOCHENSKI 'CZARNY HUMOR W TWÓRCZOSCI WITKACEGO, GOMBROWICZA, SCHULZA. LATA TRZYDZIESTE', KRAKÓW 2005

K. Mojsak

Pamiętnik Literacki > 2007 > 98 > 3 > 236-241

A review of the book by Tomasz Bochenski being an attempt to comprehend texts by Witkacy, Gombrowicz, Schulz through the prism of the category of black humour in the context of the attitudes towards physicality and death; it puts forward the idea of humor understanding as a peculiar form of the contemporary ars moriendi.

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DANGEROUS LIAISONS OR TADEUSZ KONWICKI'S ROMANCE WITH WITOLD GOMBROWICZ

M. Bielecki

Pamiętnik Literacki > 2007 > 98 > 3 > 75-92

The article is devoted to an analysis of intertextual and ideological connections in the artistic works by Tadeusz Konwicki and Witold Gombrowicz. Though frequently mentioned, 'Ferdydurke' author's influence on Konwicki has never been fully described, and cannot be closed with a simple forefather's impact on his follower. The author of 'A Minor Apocalypse' willingly reads Gombrowicz, and often comments,...

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A REVIEW OF MARIAN STEPIEN 'JAK GRECKA TRAGEDIA. PISARZ POLSKI W SYTUACJI WYBORU.1944-1948', KRAKÓW 2005

D. Kulesza

Pamiętnik Literacki > 2007 > 98 > 3 > 241-249

A review of the book by Marian Stepien, presenting the attitudes of the recognized Polish writers (e.g. Milosz, Gombrowicz, Iwaszkiewicz) towards Poland under Soviet domination after the World War II: some writers accepted this situation straightaway, others treated it as inevitable, yet some others disapproving this situation choose emigration.

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A RESEARCH PROJECT IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION: SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMAS IN POLISH DRAMAS IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY

B. Schultze

Ruch Literacki > 2007 > 48 > 4-5 > 449-460

This article focuses on the frequently acknowledged and yet insufficiently investigated shaping influence (or, 'patronage' as Zbigniew Herbert called it) of Shakespeare's plays on Polish literature and theatre in the 19th and 20th century. An examination of a few notable dramatic works shows that Shakespeare's contribution to the formation of their aesthetic form is by no means uniform. In 'Balladyna'...

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Witold Gombrowicz and Julius Caesar

M. Staniszewski

Meander > 2005 > 60 > 2 > 220-232

One of the most famous passages written by Gombrowicz is his parody of a Latin lesson in 'Ferdydurke'. The present article examines the writer's knowledge of the ancient world and languages and his attitude towards them. It also shows how his parody of schoolboys' translations of Caesar was reproduced in various languages by Gombrowicz's translators.

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HOW GOMBROWICZ PLAYS WITH SYMBOLS: 'WEDDING' FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

M. Kepinski

Kultura i Społeczeństwo > 2005 > 49 > 4 > 43-67

The author analyzes the ways in which Witold Gombrowicz played with traditional culture in his play 'Wedding'. Gombrowicz polemizes with traditional culture, by using aspects of the grotesque, reversal of traditional meanings and depreciation of symbols, as well as with its symbolic spheres, such as home, king and marriage. Gombrowicz creates a world that is deprived of a center, the eternal 'axis...

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HOW TO SEE ARCHITECTURE (IN GOMBROWICZ AND OTHER MODERNIST AUTHORS) WHEN IT IS BEING READ?

M. Lesniakowska

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2005 > 3(93) > 38-57

This article is the first-ever analysis of Gombrowicz's (and other modernist authors') liaisons with architecture in the history of Witold Gombrowicz scholarship. The authoress inspects into these issues from the standpoint of so-called critical history of art, which positions her paper also within the area of methodological issues and new trends in studies of arts. In her opinion, absence of questions...

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WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, NATURE VS. CULTURE

J. Jarzebski

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2005 > 3(93) > 17-26

Gombrowicz's relations with the Nature have always been pretty tense, and beset with paradoxes. First, he mocked at Enlightenment-Romanticist stereotypes of displaying the Nature; in biology, he saw a destructive power, undermining the structure of Culture. Then, he would put an emphasis on attempts at finding an understanding between the 'human' and the 'non-human', be it via a simple 'glance' (a...

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ZDRAVKO MALIC'S GOMBROWICZ

D. Blazina

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2005 > 3(93) > 66-78

This article is devoted to Zdravko Malic's activities as a literary critic. Malic is a Croatian scholar of Polish who authored Croatia's first scholarly dissertation on the Witold Gombrowicz oeuvre (defended 1965). Providing a summary of an existing knowledge on Gombrowicz, and having read his texts in a perspective of existentialism and grotesque, Malic focused in his paper on the basic characteristics...

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WITOLD GOMBROWICZ'S 'TRANS-ATLANTYK' : A COMMUNITY SACRIFICIAL RITUAL

P. Czaplinski

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2005 > 3(93) > 27-37

The present interpretation of 'Trans-Atlantyk' focuses on the notions of 'ojczyzna' (lit., 'the fatherland') and synczyzna (lit., 'a son's-land'), understood as two types of community. The author has attempted at proving that any differences between the two prove to be apparent, and similarities strong, which leads one to a question about a 'community of laugh' (as shown in the closing section of...

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THE BORDERS OF TRANSITIVITY

L. Neuger

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts) > 2005 > 3(93) > 9-16

The notion of transitivity comes from Emmanuel Lévinas' lectures collected and edited as 'Le temps et l´autre', where it is defined as ecstatic absorption of the world as a food, as part of one's material care about himself/herself. This essay focuses on two consecutive records, dated 1958, in Gombrowicz's 'Dziennik' (The Journal), where the author's transitivity seemingly stops in the face of fate/death...

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