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WRITING AS A WAY TOWARDS THE REALITY (MILAN SIMECKA: 'LISTY Z VAZENIA, DOPISY Z VEZENI' - LETTERS FROM THE PRISON)

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Matejovic P.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

2006

vol. 53

issue 2

100-109

The work of Milan Simecka (1930 - 1990) is known in Slovakia predominantly in connection with his activities of a secularly oriented dissent. From the perspective of a literary genre the attention of literary theorists and critics was drawn to his journalism and essayistic, in which his civic attitudes are reflected. Less attention was given to his epistolary - memoir works, where we can identify in significant presence of aesthetic moments. This is what the author of the study wants to stress. Simecka's 'Letters from the prison' (1999) are an object of interpretation.. He wrote them during politically motivated imprisonment in 1981-1982. Simecka's letters are marked by actual life situation - their author had to count with permanent presence of prison censorship and creates his own language and 'substitute' apolitical themes connected with his private life. That is why he works more with metonymy and metaphor and he is more 'artistic' than openly socially -critical, as it is visible in his journalistic and essayistic works from the 70th and 80th. The author of the study refers to the text of Peter Zajac 'Aesthetic as a Life Principal', where this aspect of the works of Simecka was correlated to European philosophical tradition. Thematic pendant to Simecka's letters a German protestant theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's letters from prison are shown 'On the Way To Freedom' and letters of Václav Havel, published as 'Letters to Olga'. The common experience in the extreme life situation made them connected. They result in the same reaction - creating an alternative reality differently structured from the true one behind the walls of their prison. The study reflects theoretic results of a Czech literary critic J. Lopatka, who in the 80th dealt with autobiographic genres. From the stylistic aspect the author of the study analyses Simecka's letters as a proto-text of 'erziehungsnovel', from the aspect aesthetics and of value he put him into wider Czecho-Slovak literary and philosophic context (V. Havel, L. Vaculik, D. Tatarka, I. Kadlecik, R. Sloboda, K. Kosik, J. Patocka, V. Belohradský). The author of the study compares a philosophical essay 'Letters about the Character of Reality', which is also included into these texts, with Bondy's 'Consolation from Ontology', which is a 'classical' work of Czech philosophical underground. He points out an ecologic measure of Simecka's opinions, rooted in the reforming Marxism of the 60th, as well as in the critic of technocratism in the works of representatives of the Frankfurt School.

Odnajdując i tracąc miejsce. Łódzki underground wobec doświadczenia miejskiej codzienności.

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Filanowski B.

DYSKURS: Pismo Naukowo-Artystyczne ASP we Wrocławiu

2018

vol. 26

188-202

Finding and losing a place. The Łódź underground against the experience of urban everday life The Łódź underground had emerged from the punk aesthetic, yet it ab- sorbed successive genres surprisingly quickly: hardcore, industrial, later also, among others, techno and rave. It utilized diverse forms of expres- sion: most of all sound, but also projections, site-specific actions, graphic design or fashion. The article, drawing from the memories and output of several most important participants of the movement, poses the ques- tion, in what way the underground so easily absorbed new genres and aesthetic patterns on the one hand, while on the other – it remained so strongly separate. The separation is revealed in the tension between experiencing new, experimenting musical and aesthetic trends, and the overwhelming eve- ryday life of the post-industrial city. This tension was the reason why the underground movement was so intensely performative in its character, in which new knowledge and new inspirations were mostly created in action.

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WRITING AS A WAY TOWARDS THE REALITY (MILAN SIMECKA: 'LISTY Z VAZENIA, DOPISY Z VEZENI' - LETTERS FROM THE PRISON)

Odnajdując i tracąc miejsce. Łódzki underground wobec doświadczenia miejskiej codzienności.