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The article focuses on Ten i tamten las [This and That Forest] by Magdalena Tulli, which is another recent example of a book addressed to children, whose sender is a distinguished author of adult literature. The interpretation of the text reveals the adult problems and emotions faced by its animal heroes, subtly hidden behind the adventurous layer of the work. Consequently, the reader receives a book that defies the traditional division into children’s literature and adult literature: a book that requires not so much the right metrics as sensitivity.
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The article is devoted to the issue of the relationship between poetry and prose area of Wioletta Grzegorzewska’s literary activity. Nominated for the most important national literary awards and the Man Booker International Prize Guguły (2014) are here interpreted as the work located at the intersection of poetry and prose, in which accumulate two most important qualities of Grzegorzewska’s creativity: a unique sense of observation and sensual imagination. They join in idiom, which the reader will recognize easily, no matter what solution formally propose its author.
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The subject of the interpretation presented in this article is Deus ex, a short story by Olga Tokarczuk, published in the volume Wardrobe (Szafa) in 1997. Analysed in the contemporary context of the ever stronger catastrophe narrative, it approaches present-day disasters and hazards as part of the eternal process of the forever transforming world. Be doing so, it alludes to the ancient understanding of catastrophe as a revolution, a dramatic climax and a turning point that leads to inevitable catharsis. In Tokarczuk’s story, disaster is part of everyday life with all its alternate rhythms. The beginnings and ends of computer worlds generated by the protagonist create a kaleidoscope that reveals a slow disintegration of the main character’s reality. His plane converges with the coexisting elements of the feminine and masculine, human and divine, linear and cyclical time, the space of the introverted and extroverted, being awake and sleeping. In light of this binary, contrapuntal configuration of characters, objects and phenomena, disaster can be envisaged not only as a sign of a certain order coming to an end but also as a condition for the reorganisation of the current socio-cultural system. Once shaken, it can reveal itself in a new, different form.
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This article proposes to consider Olga Tokarczuk’s short story Profesor Andrews w Warszawie [Professor Andrews Goes to Warsaw] from the volume Gra na wielu bębenkach [Playing on Many Drums] as a tale of a journey to what could be called the starting point of the culture of moderation. It is a record of a process where the protagonist gets lost in a foreign city (and language) and is forced to limit the needs that make up the classic pyramid developed by the American psychologist Abraham Maslow, with his physiological needs taking over and emerging as the involuntary ultimate goal of his journey. In the context of the culture of moderation, Professor Andrews arises as a peculiar example of an individual who applies reduction strategies and eventually arrives at the conclusion that if something does not condition the existence as such it is essentially redundant. While not devoid of a Cathartic element, the drama presents a character stripped off of all attributes of his previous status, juxtaposing them with the deficit of consumer goods in Poland during the martial law as a still valid perspective for questions about possession and (well-)being. Although the current slogans calling for a reduction of human needs tend to focus on nature, which finds it increasingly more difficult to endure our consumerist debauchery, the direction set by the culture of moderation remains unchanged.
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2018
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vol. 11
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issue 1
109-117
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Based on the fourth part of Pamela Lyndon Travers’s series of children’s books, Mary Poppins in the Park, the article proposes a view of a park as a dychotomic place: subjected to some rules, yet simultaneously a real and magic space which stirs one’s imagination. Following this double understanding, it can be stated that a park ideally matches the title character of the novel, who cares (often too much) about her children’s appropriate behaviour, but at the same time displays her predilection for children plays and imagination games. The conclusion highlights the two-dimensionality of the park, which by welcoming adults and children, becomes the space of both the real and the imaginary.
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This paper is an attempt to read the last volume of poetry by Urszula Zajączkowska with the trail of three poems: w koronach [in the crowns], miejsce przy oknie [a window seat] and wysokie drzewa [tall trees]. They all refer to dendrological threads, thus representing one of several, but perhaps the most important area of the natural interest of the author of Atomy [Atoms]. These works have been interpreted as emblems of concepts, respectively, contact, communication and creation, setting the reading directions of the other poems collected in the volume.
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Artykuł jest próbą lektury ostatniego tomiku poezji Urszuli Zajączkowskiej tropem trzech zamieszczonych w nim wierszy: w koronach, miejsce przy oknie i wysokie drzewa. Wszystkie odwołują się do wątków dendrologicznych, reprezentując tym samym jeden z kilku, lecz być może najważniejszy obszar przyrodniczych zainteresowań autorki Atomów. Wymienione utwory zostały potraktowane w interpretacji jako emblematy pojęć, odpowiednio, kontaktu, komunikacji i kreacji, wyznaczając kierunki lektury pozostałych zgromadzonych w tomie wierszy.
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The article offers an interpretation of Olga Tokarczuk’s story, The Visit, in which the writer portrays the epoch of man in the costume of a futuristic clone community. The Anthropocene, shown by the Nobel Prize winner in a distorted mirror, appears as a mixture of discourses based on language, image, and body, confronted with the egocentric, introverted personality profile of the protagonists of the work. In the context of post‑humanist thought (R. Braidotti, D. Haraway, T. Morton), this complexity becomes, paradoxically, a condition for the survival of humanity.
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W artykule zaproponowano interpretację opowiadania Olgi Tokarczuk Wizyta, w którym pisarka sportretowała epokę człowieka w kostiumie futurystycznej społeczności klonów. Ukazany przez noblistkę w krzywym zwierciadle antropocen jawi się jako mieszanina opartych na języku, obrazie i ciele dyskursów, zderzonych z egocentrycznym, introwertycznym profilem osobowościowym bohaterek utworu. W kontekście myśli posthumanistycznej (R. Braidotti, D. Haraway, T. Morton) ta złożoność staje się, paradoksalnie, warunkiem przetrwania ludzkości.
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