WITOLD GOMBROWICZ, NATURE VS. CULTURE

• Authors: Jarzebski J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Gombrowicz's relations with the Nature have always been pretty tense, and beset with paradoxes. First, he mocked at Enlightenment-Romanticist stereotypes of displaying the Nature; in biology, he saw a destructive power, undermining the structure of Culture. Then, he would put an emphasis on attempts at finding an understanding between the 'human' and the 'non-human', be it via a simple 'glance' (a cow in an eucalyptus alley), a community of shared pain that unifies all the living beings, up to plaiting (as in 'Kosmos') a metaphysical world order with one being built upon excesses of a libido, which has been generated within the Nature's sphere. The further up we go, the Gombrowicz vs. Nature relationship becomes more and more complex, culminating in 'Operetka' (Operetta) where Albertynka, naked, a symbol of natural beauty and charm, gets pregnant with the memory of a 'Nature's scandal': 'ugliness of the body that's growing old'.

Keywords

EN

GOMBROWICZ WITOLD

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 3(93)
• Pages: 17-26
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jarzebski J.

• J. Jarzebski, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, ul.Golebia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00441090