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This article deals with the theme of eroticism in the poetry of Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki. Eroticism is regarded here as a special category of inner experience, one of the subject's modes of existence. According to Georges Bataille it is connected with transgression, loss of 'I' and melancholy. Viewed from the religious perspective, which is important for Tkaczyszyn-Dycki, it is situated in the zone of uncleanliness. Consequently, eroticism appears to be a form of profound and radical bodily experience which cannot be separated from the desire for sublimation in the poetic sphere or, even less so, the desire for the subject's purified 'I', cleansed by poetry and thus reaching out towards the metaphysical horizon.
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Miroslav Krleža (1893–1981) in his novel Povratak Filipa Latinovicza (1932) formed the myth of the femme fatale in the picture of two women: Regina and Bobočka. Women are the main obsession of the hero, the painter Filip, who returns home after twenty-three years to find lost sources of his identity and lost inspiration for his art. The novel – story of Filip’s life – regarding the problem that women are just objects of desire, is divided into two parts: the trauma of Regina belongs to his youth (first part of the novel) and affects his present; Bobočka is the frustration in his present. Women with no clear identity are mainly presented with the body, they represent the irrational world and mystery and they explore their body to use men and improve their position in society. Eroticism is the place of Evil. In this sense especially bizarre is Bobočka, with whom Filip falls desperately in love: she ruined men in the past and she does the same to present lovers. Filip plays the role of an observer: he experiences especially bizarre erotic scene in a threesome between Bobočka, her lover Kyriales and her man Baločanski. The grotesque, obscene scene is the place of modern hell, where the hero is punished by looking at his beloved with two other men. The end is very characteristic and amplifies the love by – connection death. Baločanski murders Bobočka, the solution of that decadent eroticism is Death. This figures also as a punishment for Bobočka in the sense of Christian philosophy: she was a vampire for the men and Baločanki murders her in the same grotesque manner. This novel was very modern in the literature of Central Europe at the beginning of the twentieth Century. Very modern is the theme of eroticism, its connection with the evil and death, even though the presentation of the woman follows the traditional stereotype of the prostitute. Eroticism in the broken mirror – in the schizophrenic perspective of sensible narrator – expresses the importance of Freud’s psychoanalysis.
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The subject of the article are the deliberations on the prose of one of contemporary Ukrainian writers — Lubko Deresh. It turns out that the young author has become part of the current of the European prose at the turn of the centuries, deciding to defy many conventions persisting in Ukrainian literature to date. The aim of the author was, as it seems, to shock the reader by using the subjects from the scope of man’s corporeality, absent or rarely appearing in Ukrainian literature. It turns out that Lubko Deresh can, in an extremely interesting way, present a human body in all its natural beauty. Apart from delicate eroticism, the author also focuses on the surroundings of love scenes, imbuing them with colours or creating an appropriate mood. His ideal of the feminine body is a young slim woman with long hair, small breasts and white complexion without a tan. One can see the echoes of adolescent desires of a teenager — after all the author was this age at the time of his literary debut. However, the reading of the following books shows that presenting man’s corporeality Lubko Deresh gives in to pressure of times and follows the most catchy themes in contemporary culture, that is sex and vulgarity, sometimes there also appears cold biologism and obscenities.
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Retoryka erotyzmu w prozie Milana Kundery

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Bohemistyka
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2016
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vol. 16
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issue 1
19 - 50
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In the essay, I make an attempt to explore a question of style, derived from Nietzsche’s discourse devoted to a figure of woman. Re-written subsequently by Derrida, the discourse itself turns out to be organized around the convoluted rhetoric events which are to reveal and at the same time conceal the representation of woman in both languages: of philosophy and of literature. As is well known, Kundera’s novels and essays consist in a significant and sometimes ambivalent confrontation occurring between these two languages, which also result in feminine characters’ construction often subordinated to the dominant rhetoric of eroticism. Furthermore, this rhetoric determines the dualistic perspective regarding the lovers’ relationships, according to which the image of woman is considered on different levels (i.e. as a reduction to the bodily ego, or emotional drive acting between sex and sublimation, etc.), which, however, always refer to the figurative procedure of transformation.
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