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Biblioteka Babel Zagłady. O Historii miłości Nicole Krauss

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Tomczok M.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2019

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issue 9(12) cz.2

143-154

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The concept of the Holocaust Babel Library discussed in my article was based on articles and lectures of John Barth, Anna Burzyńska, Umberto Eco and Raymond Federman. I show how this notion has crystallised from the popular postmodernism label that was named the Tower of Babel and had its beginning in 2000s. I follow a 2005 novel − History of Love by American writer Nicole Krauss (Polish, poorly translated, edition was published in 2006) rated among the so-called third generation. I show both the historical aspect of this novel (pogroms of Jews in Słonim in 1941) as well as its ideological facet. The Holocaust Babel Library in Krauss’ prose is a sign of a funeral ritual consisting in the reconstruction of history from innumerable quotations, allusions and references to books.

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Biblioteka Betel

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Kuligowski P.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2019

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issue 9(12) cz.2

127-141

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The essay starts with Borges and his unsurpassable account of the Library of Babel, interpreted as an ad hoc allegory of the humanistic erudition and its close affiliation with gnosis or, more precisely, its modern variety. The latter is conceived here as described by Eric Voegelin. The humanistic ideal of knowledge, in a manner of speaking, ‘immanentises the eschaton’ by the sheer fact of lending it a form, ‘visualised’ by Borges as the Library of Babel, a ‘gnostic’, inner-worldly equivalent of the Beyond. In a typically modern fashion, the Library replaces the mystics with aesthetics. The transcendental figure of Christ is reduced to an all-too-human figure of Narcissus. And yet, somehow, there is more to books than just words. By reading Ovid in the light of Plato, the essay penetrates and reflects the dual, ambivalent nature of the humanistic − or, shall we say, humane − pursuit of knowledge, gnostically ‘narcissistic’ and platonically ‘Christian’ at the same time. It is only then, at the close of the essay, that we are back with Borges: “Through this space [the Library] [...] there passes a spiral staircase which winds upward and downward into the remotest distance”. Deep within the periodically infinite Library of Babel, there lurks another one − the Library of Bethel − Jacobean, transcendental, surreal.

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Elementi per un approccio biblico-teologico al tema della comunicazione

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Zamboni S.

Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne

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2021

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vol. 34

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issue 2

174-193

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This article aims to provide the basic elements for a theology of communication. To exhaustively deal with a biblical and theological vision of communication is a daunting task, since, in a certain sense, all Scripture and all theological work is an event of communication. In this contribution, the author seeks to derive fundamental elements from particularly significant biblical passages in this regard. In the first place, he highlights characteristics of the Word of God, through which God creates the world and communicates himself to humankind. Next, he clarifies the sense in which Christ, the incarnate Word of God, reveals himself as the “perfect communicator” and he studies the narrative mechanisms and the theological value of parables and Johannine irony and misunderstanding. Then he considers the difficulty of human communication relying on the biblical episode of the Tower of Babel, and connects this to the proclamation of the evangelical kerygma, to which the figure of the Apostle Paul bears particular witness. At the conclusion of the article, the author proposes some general considerations on communication. The author formulates these as “brief theses”, which not only summarize the itinerary undertaken but also intend to open space for further reflection.

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Biblioteka Babel Zagłady. O Historii miłości Nicole Krauss

Biblioteka Betel

Elementi per un approccio biblico-teologico al tema della comunicazione