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"Uciekałem w samotność" - figury romantycznej samotności w "Pamiętnikach szaleńca Gustava Flauberta"
Get PDFThe aim of the article is to analyze the experience of solitude in Memoirs of aMadman (1838), one of the youthful works of Gustave Flaubert, where autobiographical and fictional elements are interspersed. The narrator of Memoirs… is a loner in a threefoldsense: social (it is a result of reluctance and even hatred towards society and a consequence of misanthropy and romantic elitism), metaphysical (a man in Memoirs… seemsto be abandoned, vainly seeking rest in God or in any au-delà) and existential (Memoirs… are written by someone who is empty, burned out, unable to creatively engage in life; he is a stranger to himself). The typology seems to be an obvious affirmation of romantic phenomenon.But Flaubert’s youthful work is not imitative: the experience of loneliness has been subjected to a process of disillusion that ruins the romantic myth
Kiko - zapiski z samotnej podróży
No full textThe article focuses on images of a solitary journey recorded in a literary form known as kikō (travel journals/diaries) that belongs to a long tradition of lifewriting narratives in Japan. The point of departure is a short introduction on structural features of kikō as a genre whose purpose is to depict a solitary journey (undertaken by poets and writers) that traces literary motifs, fictional characters, or places described in literature. The introductory part highlights the continuation of the genre in the literary tradition of Japan from the Middle Ages to the present day, and indicates how kikō can be interpreted within the framework of Western diary studies, for example as defined by Philippe Lejeune. The principal part of the paper analyses an essay written in 1952 by Endō Shūsaku Terēzu no kage o otte (Following the Shadow of Thérèse) as an example of a contemporary kikō. The essay is the testimony of Endō’s solitary journey to the south-west corner of France inorder to re-read and to capture the essence of a novel by François Mauriac, Thérèse Desqueyroux. This novel so significantly influenced Endō’s oeuvres that at the end of his life the writer would call it “the novel I have loved”._______________
"Jeśli jest sam, to przynosi dobrą nowinę (2Sm 18,25). Kilka słów o samotności i wspólnocie
No full textThe paper presents an attempt at a reflection on the experience of solitude, sadness and depression in the modern Christian community of faith. Solitary people in the Old Testament (e.g. orphans, widows and exiles in the Book of Deuteronomy and in the prophetic books) become the ethical foundation of Israel’s community, and in the New Testament the weeping receive one of Jesus’ eight benedictions; however, in thecourse of time the sadness of solitude often turns out to be a stigma of exclusion from the community of faith rather than an object of the messianic promise. In order to return to biblical sources, it may prove useful to enhance the value of the Jewish dimension of faith(the value of existential emunah of Judaism against the dogmatic pistis of Christianity, cf. Buber). In light of Kristeva’s concept, only such a reading of biblical texts (e.g. Psalm 88) can give voice to the experience of depression, bringing language/life into the space ofwhat is asymbolic, and to death. The second part of the paper proposes a new interpretation of the gospel, brought tothe community by an isolated individual, through the reading of Notatnik (1965-1979) (The Notebook) by Anna Kamieńska. Not only is it a powerful literary record of the experience of solitude, but it also exposes the consoling content of faith, denounces its propermechanisms of social exclusion and projects (proposes?) a Christian community that would be cemented by solidarity and the capacity for self-questioning
Samotność spojrzenia. O czułej pracy dokumentalisty
Get PDFIn a cultural discourse a solitude is often presented as a state of mind ora social situation. In the both cases, to be lonely means to be alienated, lost or generally unhappy. Is it possible, however, to look at the solitude differently and to notice its potential power of phenomenological insight into the world? In the article the solitude leads the artist to the self reflection and creation. Having based on chosen examples of photography by Zbigniew Tomaszczuk I discuss the idea ofcontemplation of the world that is possible only when the photographer looks through the lens of the camera from a sole distance. I consider three aspects of such gaze like:1. a looking at the landscape, which distances the spectator from the time and space and helps in the composition of the frame, 2. a looking at the own past from the distance ofpassing time, and finally 3. narrating the home city through a visual metapho
Zbawczy wymiar samotności oraz jej konsekwencje dla chrześcijanina
Get PDFSolitude for Christians is not a burden but an indispensable dimension ofmaturing to sanctity. It results from the life of Christ who did not only experience loneliness in the desert and on the cross, but made it something necessary. In solitude, the cross of Christ is shown as openness to all in the realization of love. Connecting them with the solitude of Christ it is easier to bear al kindly of difficult experiences inconveniences as well as to help those who cannot cope with them
Osoba i wartości
Get PDFThe main goal of this article is to present at phenomenological reflection some relations between human being and universal values. Autor of article unites theological and philosophical aspects of human life. It’s show being’s conditio, man’s choising and acts in relation to other and to God
Odnaleźć phronesis w aisthesis. Paul Ricoeur wobec samotności wyboru i działania
Get PDFThis article tries to answer the question whether is possible to achieve such a wisdom of situational overview to recognize right way of acting in a situation of tragic moral choice, connected with incertitude and loneliness of decision-making subject. Paul Ricoeur’s Oneself as Another is discussed here as well as its main reference points, that is Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Kant’s moral doctrine. The solution given by Ricoeur – as it is claimed – is the strongest one, even if insufficient to ultimately eliminate anxiety and incertitude that moral subject is fated to
Ostatni Żyd w Europie. Pieśń o zamordowanym żydowskim narodzie J. Kacenelsona
No full textItzhak Katzenelson was a Polish Jew who survived the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, to be murdered a year later in Auschwitz. During his internment inVittel, he wrote a requiem for the European Jewry. The paper offers a preliminary analysisof the text and asks the question: what is involved in the feeling that one is the last of a people
