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Karol Irzykowski's 'Sny Marii Dunin' as a testimony to a modern experience

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Franczak J.

Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)

2006

issue 3(99)

118-134

The author attempts at interpreting Karol Irzykowski's short story 'Sny Marii Dunin' as a testimony to a modern experience. Both the motif of the unusual illness suffered by the main character, consisting in a reversal of the order of dream and reality, and the motif of the Grand Bell Guild, i.e., 'the vowers of the ideal', indirectly express the dilemmas of modernist thought. The hidden order of things, as symbolised by the Buried Bell, is removed from the sphere of experience which thereby gains the nature of unmotivated casualness. The conviction that there exists another, more realistic, dimension of the world is connected with the discovery of conventionality and 'contractuality' of what we take as real. Irzykowski, very much like other modernists (and, like the Guild members), are in search of an 'ideal', whilst at the same time doubting whether it exists at all; the only thing remaining of essence is the very movement of thought in search of the borders of cognition and borders of art. The mainstream modernist works tend to distance themselves from non-intermediated experience as well as from avant-garde strivings for purifying the perception from cultural influences. They describe the process of dislocation of the sphere of meanings and the world, and investigate into the limitations of discourse, bringing their own artificiality and indirectness to the forefront. Well-developed critical mechanisms render unreal what is conventionally realistic, whilst also taking the signs of authenticity away from any reality found. 'Sny Marii Dunin' reflects this quest for source chaos and the parallel discovering of its illusiveness - the regression into the infinite, being the essence of a modernist(ic) thought.

Zderzenie codzienności XIX–XXI wieku w powieści Prsten od vévodkyně Františka Novotnego

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Pająk A.

Bohemistyka

2014

vol. 14

issue 2

128 - 143

The paper entitled 'Clash of the reality from the XIX and XXI century in František Novotný's novel Prsten of vévodkyně' attempts to show the strategies that the author uses reconstructing distant and recent past. The book is the first part from the series Kroniky karmínových kamenů, which aims to approach Czech history in a different way than it is presented in school textbooks. The author offers the reader two almost parallel stories. The character of this "new" history is an ex-secret service agent - Zdeněk Milbach, who travels through Czech history using the time machine (which is the portrait of Božena Němcová). There is also a story from the past describing the life of his ancestor Mühlbach. He similarly is a police secret agent who is following Němcová, just like Mülbach is following Alena Michálkova. It that way, Novotný proves that despite of the fact that the XIX century is already 'historical' period, it has a lot in common with recent history. In both periods the author stresses the events from the years 1848 and 1989, which, all the same, are milestones in the lives of both characters. This piece of work, that constitutes as hybrid combination of detective story and historical fantasy, is the example of revitalization of the subject of history in contemporary literature.

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Karol Irzykowski's 'Sny Marii Dunin' as a testimony to a modern experience

Zderzenie codzienności XIX–XXI wieku w powieści Prsten od vévodkyně Františka Novotnego