RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is an analysis of Witold Gombrowicz's play The Marriage from the perspective of political philosophy. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The main problem ...undertaken in the article is an analysis of the play Marriage within the context of the main themes present in Witold Gombrowicz's work, i.e. the problem of "pure form," the relationship between the Fatherland and the Sonland, and the Interhuman Church. The article is based on an analysis of Gombrowicz source texts (The Marriage, A Guide to Philosophy, Diaries), conducted within the context of the abovementioned themes in his thought. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The text begins with a justification of the author's attempt at analyzing The Marriage from the perspective of political philosophy. Achieving this goal requires a synthetic grasp of the problems of political philosophy, culminating in a working definition of the latter. Next, the main themes in W. Gombrowicz's work are subjected to a synthetic and concise analysis. Finally, it is within this context that the main goal of the article is undertaken - an analysis of the play The Marriage from the perspective of political philosophy. RESEARCH RESULTS: The main result of the scientific analysis conducted in the article is the formulation of a consistent interpretation of W. Gombrowicz's play The Marriage from the perspective of political philosophy. Three out of four of the main themes in Gombrowicz's work are considered in this interpretation. The theme of the "facilitated life" was purposely left out of the analysis. The entire analysis is presented against the backdrop of the Cartesian notion of Cogito, which also serves as the background for all of Gombrowicz's work. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS: in his conclusions, the author indicates various interpretive possibilities for the key issues undertaken in the article (the relationship between Fatherland and Sonland, among others), thus creating a starting point for further research into both political (or meta-political) issues and the question of Gombrowicz's position in reference to the archetype of Polish political culture.
The series of publications of Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies at Freie Universitat Berlin stands for internationally oriented literary studies which go beyond an exclusive ...focus on the Western tradition and turn towards the European, American, Arabic and Asian literatures of modernity, medieval times and antiquity. The publication forum offers monographs and anthologies which present an exemplary effort within their subject and at the same time cross its boundaries into the philologies and literatures of the world. The purpose is the integration of single disciplinary and comparative research involving neighbouring discursive practices. Friedrich Schlegel's approach obliges to do research of literary cultures from a universal-poetic perspective. International Board Ute Berns (Universitat Hamburg) Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University) Stefan Keppler-Tasaki (University of Tokyo) Renate Lachmann (Universitat Konstanz) Ken'ichi Mishima (Osaka University) Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) Jean-Marie Schaeffer (EHESS Paris) Janet A. Walker (Rutgers University) David Wellbery (University of Chicago) Christopher Young (University of Cambridge)
In perioada 21-30 iunie 2017, autoarea a efectuat o vizită documentară la Biblioteca Institutului de Cercetări Literare din Varşovia, din cadrul Academiei Polone de Ştiinţe, în vederea realizării ...studiului științific bilateral cu titlul Scriitori români în bibliotecile din Polonia. Au mai fost vizitate: Biblioteca Universităţii din Varşovia, a cărei clădire cu structuri de metal şi sticlă, acoperite de plante, reprezintă o simbioză perfectă între modern şi natural, Biblioteca Publică (a orașului), Biblioteca Centrală Agricolă din Varşovia, Muzeul Polin dedicat Istoriei Evreilor Polonezi (care în 2016 a câștigat titlul de Muzeul European al Anului) și Universitatea Jagiellonă (din Cracovia), cea mai veche universitate poloneză. Un obiectiv istoric foarte important vizitat a fost Muzeul și Memorialul Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Gombrowicz and the Monster Mandolessi, Silvana
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It is no coincidence that, together with his best- known novel—Ferdydurke— which placed him as one of the most important Polish Modernism writers, Witold Gombrowicz, around the same period, became ...involved in the writing of a gothic novel: Opętani (Possessed; or, The secret of Myslotch). Under the pseudonym Z. Niewieski, Gombrowicz serialized Possessed in two Polish daily newspapers from June 6 to August 30, 1939. The German attack on Poland interrupted its publication.
Considered by many to be among the greatest writers of the past hundred years, Polish novelist Witold Gombrowicz explores the modern predicament of exile and displacement in a disintegrating world in ...his acclaimed classicTrans-Atlantyk. Gombrowicz's most personal novel-and arguably his most iconoclastic-Trans-Atlantykis written in the style of agaweda, a tale told by the fireside in a language that originated in the seventeenth century. It recounts the often farcical adventures of a penniless young writer stranded in Argentina when the Nazis invade his homeland, and his subsequent "adoption" by the Polish embassy staff and émigré community.Based loosely on Gombrowicz's own experiences as an expatriate,Trans-Atlantykis steeped in humor and sharply pointed satire, interlaced with dark visions of war and its horrors, that entreats the individual and society in general to rise above the suffocating constraints of nationalistic, sexual, and patriotic mores. The novel's themes are universal and its execution ingenious-a masterwork of twentieth-century literary art from an author whom John Updike called "one of the profoundest of the late moderns."
