Alegoria w „skrzydłach ołtarza”: Herling-Grudziński, Benjamin, de Man

• Authors: Jan Potkański

Title variants

EN

Allegory in the “pieta dell’isola”: Herling-Grudziński, Benjamin, de Man

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article juxtaposes the diptych of short stories by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, The Tower and Pieta dell’Isola, with the theories of allegory developed by Paul de Man in The Rhetoric of Temporality as well as by Walter Benjamin in The Origin of German Tragic Drama. The analyses reveal several points of convergence in the structure and motives present in the works by Grudziński and in the texts by these critics. In the case of Benjamin, this would suggest his influence on Herling, whereas in the case of de Man, it reveals a parallelism of thoughts of the two contemporaries working with different genres and different interpretative communities, yet developing very similar conceptions of the text as well as of the man.

Keywords

PL

alegoria; symbol; ironia; Gustaw Herling-Grudziński; Benjamin; de Man

EN

allegory; symbol; irony; Gustaw Herling-Grudziński; Paul de Man

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 7(10)
• Pages: 335-344

Dates

published

2017-06-01

Contributors

author

Jan Potkański

• Uniwersytet Warszawski

Identifiers

DOI

10.32798/pflit.96