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Indie w „Pożegnaniu jesieni”. Obietnica wyzwolenia czy kolejna inteligentna drwina Witkacego?

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Iwanek K.

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nr 1

81-96

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The article seeks to analyse the importance of Indian motifs in Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s “Pożegnanie Jesieni (Farewell to Autumn).” It starts with claiming that while India and its aspects are depicted in a very general and sometimes erratic way in the novel, Witkacy’s “Farewell to Autumn” cannot simply be summed up using Edward W. Said’s (and Erazm Kuźma’s) method. India, and the East as such, is described here neither as a simple mirror image of the West nor any myth of it being construed. The author's conclusion is that rather with treating the vision of the East, the novel deals much more with the image of certain Europeans fascinated with the East. In his opinion, Hela’s conversion to Buddhism, a crucial point in novel’s plot, is indicative of it. However, following Jan Tuczyński, the author finds it possible that the final moment of the book, Atanazy’s death, may point out to setting a common ground between elements of Witkacy’s philosophy and a certain concept from Indian classical schools of thought. If that be the case, Witkacy might have meant that a true dialogue between the West and the East should be based not on a superficial, ‘spiritual’ journey to the East, but on a meaningful philosophical search to find shared elements in Western and Eastern schools of thought.

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Słowa i obrazy. Próba koncyliacji na przykładzie twórczości Witkacego

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Murawska M.

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nr 39

65-78

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The article discusses Paweł Polit’s book on the philosophy and painterly oeuvre of S. I. Witkiewicz that relates both areas of Witkiewicz’s work based on his idea of “unity of personality.” Exploring Witkacy’s theory, also contained in his literary works, Polit confronts it with the philosophical sources of his thought, as well as with Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology and Deleuze’s and Derrida’s reflections on painting that bring to the fore its corporeal, haptic dimension. The idea of the “unity of personality” is, according to Polit, a keystone of Witkacy’s thought, giving coherence to his aesthetic reflection, despite of its changes. Subjected to an appropriate interpretation, i.e. connected with the theory of the unconscious background of experiences, inseparable from the psychophysical identity of an individual, the idea of “unity of personality” becomes also the interpretative key to Witkacy’s painting. The author draws attention to the originality of Polit’s approach to Witkiewicz which situates itself within a broader contemporary discussion on the relationships between art and philosophy, painting and writing. She juxtaposes Witkacy’s case discussed by Polit with other examples of artists in whose oeuvre writing and visual work illuminate each other and intertwine.

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Artykuł poświęcony jest książce Pawła Polita na temat filozofii i malarstwa Witkacego, badającej oba te obszary jego twórczości w świetle rozwijanej przezeń koncepcji „jedności osobowości”. Zgłębiając teorię Witkacego, zawartą także w jego utworach literackich, Polit konfrontuje ją z filozoficznymi źródłami jego myśli, a także z fenomenologią cielesności Merleau-Ponty’ego oraz refleksją Deleuze’a i Derridy dotyczącą malarstwa – jego cielesnego, haptycznego wymiaru. Pojęcie „jedności osobowości” stanowi zdaniem Polita punkt zwornikowy myśli Witkacego, nadający spójność jego refleksji estetycznej, mimo jej czasowych zmian. Pojęcie to, poddane odpowiedniej interpretacji, powiązane z teorią nieświadomego tła przeżyć, nieodłącznego od psychofizycznej tożsamości „ja”, staje się też kluczem do odczytania jego malarstwa. Autorka zwraca uwagę na oryginalność ujęcia zaproponowanego w książce Polita, wpisującego się we współczesną refleksję nad związkami sztuki i filozofii, malarstwa i słowa. Omawianą przez Polita praktykę pisarską Witkacego zestawia z innymi przykładami artystów, w których twórczości teksty i dzieła wizualne nawzajem się oświetlają, tworząc wewnętrzny splot.

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Witkacego filozofia kultury. Próba odczytania z perspektywy szkoły frankfurckiej

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Owczarek K.

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nr 1(5)

127-148

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The article aims to discuss the Witkacy's philosophy of culture and save it in the concept of cultural industry developed by Horkheimer and Adorno. In the first part the Pole’s philosophy of culture is reconstructed, with particular emphasis on mechanisms of collapse manifested in challenging the religion, art and philosophy. The next section is devoted to the idea of the subjective reason, which Germans perceive as a cause of cultural industry. Then mass culture is described and analyzed including the thoughts of philosophers mentioned.

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Witkacy’s Self-Portraits as Manifestations of the Dandy Figure

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Niedziałkowska D.

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nr 4(31)

189-206

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Many researchers of Witkacy’s oeuvre alert us to the strong presence of ‘dandyism’ both in his literary work and in his biography. The classification of ‘dandyism’ is significant, however, for his entire work including his art. It should be recalled that ‘dandyism’ is not only seen as an exaggerated concern with appearance but also an attitude expressed in a certain individuality of style, eccentricity, nonchalance and skepticism. This paper analyzes the self-discrediting strategy in Witkacy’s work, first described by Grzegorz Grochowski. It draws attention to the way in which Witkacy assumes various roles that usually have controversial cultural connotations. These include feminine self-stylization, the role of megalomaniac, snob, or amateur. The intention of the contribution is to explore the ways in which this self-discrediting strategy has been articulated in self-portraits.

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The Profane and the Sacred in Insatiability

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Rudnicki M.

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nr 4(31)

167-176

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In this essay I examine Genezip’s effort to solve the mystery of existence by employing the theoretical and social insights of Georges Bataille. I argue that Bataille’s division of human time into profane and sacred time is applicable to Zip’s adventures as he follows sacred/erotic passions as opposed to the world of the profane/work to encounter the mystery. I examine this dichotomy as it is prevalent throughout the novel from Zip’s earliest encounters with sexuality and observations of his father’s factory workers.He abandons the world of profane not only in the forms of manual labor, but also in the forms of philosophy and literature. Instead, Zip opts for the sacred/erotic as he is initiated into the world of bohemia and experiences self individuation ironically at moments of transgression.

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Futurism and Witkiewicz: Variety, Separation and Coherence in a Theatre of Pure Form

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Ramsay G.

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nr 4(31)

121-135

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This article will consider Witkacy’s theatre plays alongside his contribution to dramatic theory with the Theory of Pure Form. In particular, it will examine the interplay between a sense of unity and a sense of the alogical, a term first used by the Italian Futurists. Focusing on The Water Hen but with reference to other plays as well as Futurist theoretical and dramatic counterparts, the article investigates on the one hand the interruption of narrative and linear progression, and uncertainty as to existence, identity and relationship; and on the other hand the persistent continuous underlying anxiety within the characters themselves and their sense of journey and destination. I suggest that his use of a series of arresting visual images and theatrical transformations unifies the scenes with in a single dream-like world, bringing an order, however opaque, to the chaos.

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Tłumaczenie a interpretacja. Kilka uwag o Szalonej lokomotywie Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza w przekładzie na język angielski

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Wesołowska M.

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tom 5

p. 453-468

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Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s The Crazy Locomotive was published in 1968 in the collection of Witkacy’s dramas The Madman and the Nun and Other Plays translated into English by Daniel Gerould and C. S. Durer. As a translator and a researcher of Witkacy’s works, Daniel Gerould takes a double role. He interprets Witkacy’s play not only in his explicit comments published in his study Witkacy. Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz as an Imaginative Writer (1981) or in the introduction to The Crazy Locomotive, but also in his translation of the drama. The author of the article presents how Gerould’s explicit interpretation of The Crazy Locomotive as a catastrophic play, where the machine wreaks auto-destruction (which is not necessarily obvious in the Polish version), may influence the translation of the text into English. In her analysis of the Polish, French and English versions of the play, the author reveals different interpretational acts of the translators.

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Vadeomecum: projekt krytycznej refleksji społecznej (Cyprian Norwid – Stefan Żeromski)

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Kącka E.

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nr 1

211-221

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We can see in Norwid’s writings the artistic process, developing in the subsequent stages of feeling that almost whole reality of his times was built on lies. Not only on intentional lies but on all forms of hypocrisy, falsehood, and collective and social illusions. e dialectics of Norwid’s thematic and formal inventiveness is based on finding and assessing the situations where literary means can be used to separate the truth from different falsehoods. And the poet shows enormous ingenuity while basing this not on religious and moral judgements but ethical and cognitive diagnoses. In my article I show how the working of Norwid’s disillusions – which can be compared to Hermeneutics of Suspicion – touches on the basic issues such as speech, work, art, progress and eventually the Gospel message. e apologist of work can see the symptoms of its alienation. the worshipper of the cult of art classifies many varieties of false art. He discovers manipulative potential of the language in rhetoric dexterity of his contemporaries. He shows to the enthusiasts of progress that the 19th century is in fact the age of involution. Norwid’s civilization project proved to be suggestive to Stefan Żeromski or Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

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Uczta z Malinowskim i Witkacym. Niedopowiedzenie i namiętność w antropologii

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Wełyczko P.

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nr Errotyzm 2(16)/2015

52-65

PL

Artykuł Uczta z Malinowskim i Witkacym. Niedopowiedzenie i namiętność w antropologii to rozważania nad wielowymiarową relacją łączącą Bronisława Malinowskiego i Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza. Przy pomocy mów filozofów zawartych w Uczcie Platona autorka dąży do wyjaśnienia uwag i komentarzy wskazanych przez biografów antropologa na temat jego przyjaźni z artystą – Witkacym. Odwołując się do fragmentów tekstów autobiograficznych takich jak Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu, 622 Upadki Bunga czyli Demoniczna Kobieta, a także Listów - Stanisława Ignacego Witkiewicza stara się poznać naturę towarzyszącego im Erosa.

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An article Symposium with Malinowski and Witkacy. Understatement and passion in anthropology considers the multidimensional relations between Bronisław Malinowski and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz. With the help from the philosophers speeches of Plato’s Symposium, writer is striving to explain observationes and comments pointed by the Malinowski’s biographers, about his friendship with an artist – Witkacy. Using fragments of autobiographical books like Dziennik w ścisłym znaczeniu tego wyrazu, 622 Upadki Bunga czyli Demoniczna Kobieta, and Letters of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz author is trying to recognise nature of the Eros involved.

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“At the Bescribbled Rock”: Tadeusz Miciński's ‘Blood-red Snow’ as a ‘poème à clef’

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Czabanowska-Wróbel A. , Czabanowska-Wróbel A.

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nr 3