Nad wodą wielką i ciemną. Zimorodek Kazimierza Orłosia

• Authors: Jerzy Marek
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Kazimierz Orłoś is known primarily as an outstanding realist writer. The article perceives this aspect: Zimorodek is a brutal story about humiliation of a decent man in the presence of a child. However, the author also wanted to indicate other possibilities of reading Orłoś’s prose and to put emphasis on the metaphysical subject matter present in the story. In his interpretation, Zimorodek becomes a story about the evil which is present in the world and about the impossibility of theodicy. The evil, personified here in the form of three criminals, excludes the existence of a good God in a Manichean way.

Keywords

PL

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Konteksty Kultury
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1-2

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-04-27

Contributors

author

Jerzy Marek