'IZBYTOK VREMIENI V CHISTOM VIDIE'. THE CONCEPT OF BOREDOM ACCORDING TO G. FLAUBERT, T. MANN, J. BRODSKY

• Authors: Stawarz B.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the concept of boredom - an essential problem in philosophy, psychology and the history of literature - derived from the work of G. Flaubert, T. Mann and J. Brodsky. In the work of G. Flaubert (Madame Bovary), boredom is associated with aversion to the sensual dimension of life. The writer also establishes a close relationship between boredom, triviality and despair. T. Mann (Der Zauberberg) regards boredom as a pathological condition which, however, is a necessary stage in the individual development process leading to a fully independent personality. According to J. Brodsky, boredom is both a sickness of an existential nature and a specific state of sorrow embedded in the ontological order of the world, a state perceived from the perspective of infinite time.

Keywords

EN

BOREDOM; REPETITION; SORROW; TIME; TRIVIALITY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 367-378
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stawarz B.

• B. Stawarz, Akademia Pedagogiczna w Krakowie, Instytut Filologii Rosyjskiej, ul. Studencka 5, 31-116 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03316831