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L’absence comme condition de la présence : Albert Samain et le dessaisissement

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Bâcle B.

Cahiers ERTA

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2023

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issue 34

55-72

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Our society’s utilitarian premises imply that only that which can be possessed, mastered and quantified can be said to lead to pleasure and contentment. This article contends that an alternative to this stance, which according to a number of philosophers can lead to ennui and despair, can be found in Albert Samain’s poetical and prose works. Samain’s writings suggest that things acquire more depth and aura once they are lost and poeticised through nostalgia and longing, and thus that absence can make a moment or an experience more present than it was when it was actually happening. And so, in spite of the melancholy which is almost inevitably attached to poetical reveries, the latter are more likely to lead to a certain form of quietude than the mere possession of the thing itself.

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Zmierzch w literaturze i malarstwie austriackim na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

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Hurnik E.

Świat i Słowo

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 2(21)

187-200

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The literature and arts in Austria at the turn of the 19th century developed in the atmosphere of decadence. The Austrian-Hungarian monarchy was falling into a decline and paradoxically, at the same time, the art experienced a tremendous boost. Secession was the main style in architecture and painting as well as impressionism, symbolism and decadence in literature. All the fields of arts reflected the feelings of transition, decline, premonition of death. They gained their deepest expression in the poetry of Georg Trakl, in which the end of a certain historical and cultural formation combined itself with the feeling of self-destruction, one’s own annihilation.

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Rzeczy ostatnie w Ostatnim rozdaniu Wiesława Myśliwskiego

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Węgrzyniak A.

Świat i Słowo

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2013

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vol. 11

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issue 2(21)

129-146

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Taking into consideration ambiguous title of Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel Ostatnie rozdanie (The last deal), the author traces the poker-like existential plot. Asking questions about who plays? – who with? – what for? – the author analyses various aspects of the text. She notices that narrator’s dialogues with himself, with ‘I’ emerging form memories (always construed), are characterized by constant balancing between different conceptions of subject and fate. In his “treatise on instability” the narrator, commenting past events, diagnoses culture and the condition of a “contingent” human being. In narrator’s games one can hear the writer’s “last word” (a testament) – the narrator entraps the reader in the last “game” with oneself, inviting to meditation on ‘”last” and “ultimate” things. In his parabolic narrative, in which the narrator has some features of Everyman, the most important thing is an attempt to manage / understand one’s own / human fate.

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L’absence comme condition de la présence : Albert Samain et le dessaisissement

Zmierzch w literaturze i malarstwie austriackim na przełomie XIX i XX wieku

Rzeczy ostatnie w Ostatnim rozdaniu Wiesława Myśliwskiego