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Dwie figury pisarstwa: nieznane zwierzę – Zantman, Gombrowicza i kopidoł Rybka, Morcinka

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Mikołajec M.

Świat i Słowo

2012

vol. 10

issue 1(18)

69-79

Marek Mikołajec in his essay Two figures of writing: unknown animal – Zantman by Gombrowicz and the gravedigger Rybka by Morcinek tries to describe situation of the first person narrator. In the analysis Readers can see clearly that in both cases (Gombrowicz and Morcinek’s) the narrator is a disillusioned outsider. Only this type of a ”storyteller” is able to tell all of inconvinient truths. The narrator is a person that is wanted and unwanted in the community at the same time. Zantman and Rybka have felt that humanity is shameless and full of hipocrisy. Zantamn tried to redefine nature as biological and cultural idea and Rybka made an attempt to understand the human heart that had experienced the traums of modern history (between the end of 19th and the first half of 20th century). Both of them tried to solve philosophical problems through storytelling. Walter Benjamin selected two types of the narrator - the first one could be described as follows: “When someone goes on a trip, he has something to tell about” and the second one is the man who has stayed at home, making an honest living, and who knows the local tales and traditions. In other words – the first one is a seaman and the second is a tiller. Gombrowicz and Morcinek’s narrators (homosexual Jew and Silesian gravedigger) connect both of these types and this double bind makes them monsters. With every deeper view they lose the ground beneath their feet. The main thesis of Mikołajec’s essay is: Only the dropout narrator can make a breakthrough in Readers’ world view.

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