Różewicz and Bonhoeffer. On the Margin of the Poem Learning to Walk by Tadeusz Różewicz

• Authors: Dakowicz, Przemysław

Abstracts

EN

The departure point of the analysis presented in this article is a poem written by Tadeusz Różewicz learning to walk (nauka chodzenia). The protagonist of the poem is Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who created the theory of “religionless Christianity”. According to Bonhoeffer, a modern Christian has to immerse himself/herself in the “godless” world so that – in tandem with the Saviour – he/she can be experience the final abandonment. The author of this article tries to prove that the theology of Bonhoeffer had a great impact on Różewicz, making him reconsider his viewpoint on faith. Due to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the poet also found a solution for a basic contradiction that was explicated in the famous poem entitled Bez (Without): “life without god is possible / life without god is impossible”.

Keywords

EN

Tadeusz Różewicz; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; learning to walk

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 8

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Dakowicz, Przemysław

other

University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Polish Philology, Department of Romantic Literature and Tradition

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/22150

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.38.09