Opowiesc o wielkiej wzglednosci: groteska i radykalny racjonalizm w bajkach Leszka Kolakowskiego

• Authors: Kajetan Mojsak

Title variants

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A STORY OF GREAT RELATIVITY: GROTESQUE AND RADICAL RATIONALISM IN LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI’S TALES

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is devoted to an interpretation of the role of grotesque in Leszek Kolakowski’s literary creativity from the years 1956–1968, taking 13 bajek z krolestwa Lailonii dla duzych i malych (Tales from the Kingdom of Lailonia) into special consideration. Grotesque aesthetic and cognitive strategies (e.g. the unusual, play with contrasts and a clash of contradictory qualities, operating with changing motivation orders) serve as highly important means of Kolakowski’s the then philosophical thought – so-called radical rationalism, commonly known as “philosophy of a fool.”

Keywords

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LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI; LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI’S TALES; LESZEK KOLAKOWSKI’S “TALES FROM THE KINGDOM OF LAILONIA”

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 104
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 83–105

Contributors

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Kajetan Mojsak

• Institute of the Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw