Słowo i prawda w powieści Wiesława Myśliwskiego Kamień na kamieniu

• Authors: Wojciech Kudyba
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The word and truth philosophy hidden in the novel Kamień na kamieniu [Stone upon Stone] references the principles of oral culture. The author consciously, through mouths of his characters, delivers a peculiar lecture on word and truth, scored for many episodes – a treatise with a mindset rooted in the folk, pre-writing way of understanding of reality. In Myśliwski’s oral world, the know-ledge of the meaning of words is tantamount to the knowledge of the principles of existence among people. Under Myśliwski’s approach, tale telling is a kind of a spiritual journey to the most primordial existential experiences. The basic function of a word becomes the unveiling of the existential worry. Speech turns out to be a vehicle bringing out from human beings what really connects them. It is only the revealed worry that removes the obstacles separating the participants of a conversation, unveils their deepest identity and their common human fate. For the novel’s narrator, understanding is a kind of a final existential opening to the Other, is a co-experiencing of the Other.

Keywords

PL

Wiesław Myśliwski, Kamień na kamieniu, antropologia słowa, oralność, mit

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Konteksty Kultury
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2015

online

2015-09-18

Contributors

author

Wojciech Kudyba