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The author of the article carries out an analysis of texts by two writers who present the Shoah from different perspectives. At the onset he points out two layers of looking at theHolocaust in fantasy writing. The first one results from the said theme filtering through into the genre directly, the second is an intermediary one, namely, through the popular after the Second World War post-apocalyptic narratives where the Shoah is thematised as, for instance, the annihilation of the human race resulting from nuclear conflict or the spread of a deadly virus. The article analyses both mentioned layers using particular examples. Polaroidy z Zagłady [The Shoah/Annihilation Polaroids] by Paweł Paliński is a tale of an individual Shoah. What constitutes the analytical framework here are the titular pictures, which translate into a genre, nowadays rarely practised, called the literary picture. In the course of reading one recognises the triangle of attitudes: victim – witness – torturer. Even if the said triangle has been criticized by historians, it nonetheless decisively appears in the text owing to its layout. Requiem dla lalek [Requiem for Dolls] and Holocaust F written by Cezary Zbierzchowski are, respectively, a short-story collection and a novel, set in the fictitious world of Ramm. It is known from the very beginning that the world is doomed to be annihilated, the harbinger of which is God’s departure. In the short stories other signs of extinction are, among other things, euthanasia, the problem of immigration etc. The plains of annihilation recognized in the course of interpretation: metaphysical, social, and personal, compose a part of philosophical reflection on consequences of catastrophes being one of the spheres of the analysis undertaken. What also arrests our attention, and thereby is reflected upon, is the highly intertextual background of Zbierzchowski’s oeuvre. A prominent place is given to the analysis of the novel’s final chapter entitled Heart of Darkness, both referring to the famous novella written by Joseph Conrad and more than sufficiently justified by the text composition itself. The article’s conclusions both position the texts in relation to other works of Polish fantasy genre and indicate their role as examples of various absorption by popular culture (here fantasy) of the Shoah-related issues.
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In the article the author is putting the cycle together New fairy tale the Polish writer and the fragment of Dusk of gods of German of the philosopher. He is advancing the hypothesis, in accordance which Parnicki is writing the Nietzschean thought down into his novel cycle, for especially with reference to moving away from the truth, making this scheme by Nietzsche unexpressed, but written down into the plot of the work. Essential, that both state the historicity of this process.
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In the paper the author discusses the problem of self-mythologization as a consequence of the results of previous demythologization of the textof history. In the first part the phenomenon is described on the example of the novel by Teodor Parnicki, Nowa baśń part I, in which the process of self-mythologization is consciously created by the writer. The second part of the article discusses Hegel’s Wykłady z filozofii dziejów (Lectures on the Philosophy of History). In this case analogous, but at this time unconscious, processes, which the German philosopher underwent, are observed. In both cases it is a process, in the result of which the deconstructors of myths create new myths, in fact, immediately, because irrespective of their assurances they do not aim at objectivity, but they build narrations which are originally supposed to realize their own goals.
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This article attempts to address the three consequences of circumcising Leptines – a protagonist of Teodor Parnicki’s two novels – with regard to physicality (or eroticism), social issues (antisemitism), and identity. At the same time, it is argued that Leptines is not only one of the first hybrid protagonist in Parnicki’s fiction; in fact, the persistence in creating corresponding heroes and the similarities they share might suggest that Leptines functions also as the author’s signature.
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W tekście podjęta zostaje próba pokazania konsekwencji obrzezania Leptynesa, bohatera dwóch powieści Teodora Parnickiego, na trzech polach: fizycznym (erotycznym), społecznym (antysemityzm), tożsamości. Jednocześnie wskazuje się, że Leptynes nie tylko jest jednym z pierwszych bohaterów‑mieszańców w prozie Parnickiego, ale także ich życiorysy są takpodobne, że można przyjąć, iż Leptynes stanowi rodzaj sygnatury pisarza w jego tekstach.
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The presented analysis juxtaposes a half-peripheral, essentially dystopian masculinity depicted in a Polish fantasy universe (including over 30 volumes by Polish and Russian authors of both genders) and a projected (utopian?) masculinity at the heart of another universe, most of all addressed to girls. Visions of masculinity presented in both the universes are the bases of comparative analysis conducted in the article. The differences between the considered warriors are made conspicuous within a few spheres of their relations and actions, from their purity and body care, to their attitudes to women and erotic relationships they engage in. What concludes the article is the analysis of the protagonists’ and narrators reactions to non-heteronormative behaviours (trace amounts of which appear in the world of the Factory Zone [Polish: Fabryczna Zona] novels, yet feature opulently and overtly in Shadowhunters).
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2019
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vol. 18
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issue 1
53-62
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Zachód wytworzył dwa podstawowe, mityczne archetypy muzułmanina. Pierwszy to wschodni mędrzec, bohater Baśni z tysiąca i jednej nocy, którego historyczną realizacją jest Saladyn, drugi zaś to groźny, opisany przez Freuda jako „niesamowity”, Starzec z Gór, za którego współcześnie uznawany jest Osama bin Laden.Przyjmując za punkt wyjścia ataki terrorystyczne z 11 września 2001 r., autor ukazał przesunięcie w imagologicznym odczytywaniu w obrębie zarysowanych archetypów. Oba typy funkcjonują w wyobraźni Zachodu od średniowiecza, wspólnie kreując ambiwalentny obraz Saidowskiego człowieka Wschodu, jednocześnie znanego, w jakimś stopniu oswojonego i groźnego, stanowiącego nie w pełni zrozumiałe zagrożenie. Od czasów kolonialnych Zachód „pozwalał” sobie na widzenie pierwszego, czyniąc Wschód bardziej widzialnym („samowitym”) i bardziej podporządkowanym. Wydarzenia z 11 września wymusiły zmianę tej perspektywy.
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The West created two archetypes of Muslim. The fi rst is the East wise man, the hero of ´The Fairy Tales of 1001 nights’ (the historical realization was Saladyn). The second is dangerous, Freudian ‘uncanny’ (the Man of the Mountain or Osama bin Laden now). For me the attack on the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001 is the point of turn the imagological point of view on that archetypes. Both of types operated from Medieval on imagination of the West. They together created the view of Said’s Eastman. At the same time he is knowing, tamed and dangerous, ‘uncanny’ threat. The long time the West could see more the fi rst and act the East more ‘canny’ and dependent. 11/09 changed this perspective.
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