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THE CHILL OF CONSCIOUSNESS, OR, MONSIEUR TESTE DEALS WITH SUFFERING (Chlód swiadomosci albo Monsieur Teste o cierpieniu)

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Musial L.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2008
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issue 6(114)
127-144
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This article deals with one of the major figures in the twentieth-century literature. Monsieur Teste was created by Paul Valéry and described in many of his short stories. This character appeared resulting from a peculiar literary experiment. Using an original character of this sort, Valéry resolved to describe the history of 'pure' consciousness. Teste is characterised by an 'inhuman' concentration of his mind, analytical approach to the world, and a desire to exercise complete control over his own solitary existence; an existence exposed to suffering, physical pain. A pain that will prove to be a real challenge to mathematical forms into which Monsieur Teste is willing to re-forge the reality around him.
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LITERATURE, EXISTENCE, 'BLOSSES LEBEN'. ELECTIVE AFFINITIES OF PETER SZONDI (Literatura, egzystencja, 'blosses Leben'. Petera Szondiego powinowactwa z wyboru)

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Musial L.
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2010
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vol. 9
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issue 3(28)
265-282
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This article presents the life and work of Peter Szondi, a German literary scholar and the creator of literary hermeneutics and modern comparative studies in postwar Germany, and a careful interpreter of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Friedrich Hölderlin, Walter Benjamin, and Paul Celan. Using a philosophical category of 'naked/bare life' (Giorgio Agamben's notion), the author of the article interprets the work of Szondi as an attempt to rewrite - through the authors that Szondi analyzed and commented on, especially Paul Celan and Walter Benjamin - his own biography. On such a reading, the late work of Peter Szondi would be an attempt to overcome the traumatic war experiences, including the loss of identity and language.
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MAN-ANIMAL-KAFKA (ZwierzoczlekoKafka)

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Musial L.
Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
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2009
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vol. 63
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issue 4(287)
69-75
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The presented essay analyses the animals appearing in the works of Franz Kafka, particularly often in the last years of the life of the author of The Trial. The realised conceptions are anticipated to a great extent by one of Kafka's earlier stories, 'A Report to an Academy', whose narrator is a chimpanzee subjected to humanisation. The fate of the leading protagonist could be treated as a concise history of anthropogenesis and, by following the example of Giorgio Agamben (L'aperto. L'uomo e l'animale), as the history of the origin and activity of the so-called anthropological machine, a motor force of the historization of man that places him outside the natural order. The subsequent stories by the author of The Metamorphosis continue those motifs, at the same time transcending the horizon delineated by them. The animal characters become increasingly ambiguous and are no longer animals or people concealed behind animal facades. The have turned into 'deformed' creatures, to cite an expression coined by Walter Benjamin in relation to the world of Kafka's works. The closing fragments of the essay analyse this 'deformed' world and the amorphous creatures populating it, especially Odradek, the protagonist of a brief text entitled 'The Householder's Concern'.
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