Wieloryby i ćmy Are Not So Dreadful (as They Are Painted) [re: Szczepan Twardoch: Wieloryby i ćmy. Dzienniki 2007–2015. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2015, ss. 276.]

Authors

  • Marek Mikołajec University of Silesia in Katowice

Keywords:

Szczepan Twardoch, intimate diary, self-creation

Abstract

The author of the article, inspired by Dariusz Nowacki’s review, proposes a thesis opposite to that of the famous critic, who calls Szczepan Twardoch’s and Jacek Dehnel’s diaries “a show-off of avatars.” In defence of Twardoch’s book, Wieloryby i ćmy [Whales and moths] the author decides to concentrate on its ideological and literary values. Most importantly, he strives to prove that the diaries constitute an original and innovative attempt at developing a genre of intimate diaries and have a multifaceted interpretive potential. The author of Morfina [Morphine] expresses in his diaries a desire for “directing a great life,” understood as a consistent creation of literary works as well as a life imitating literature. The analyses and commentaries included in the article focus on the oppositions and hypostases found in the text, for example, of the world and provincial, history and life, literature and nothingness, settlement and foreignness, life and death, presence and absence, life according to spirit and life according to body, responsibility and its lack.

Published

2015-12-30

How to Cite

Mikołajec, M. (2015). Wieloryby i ćmy Are Not So Dreadful (as They Are Painted) [re: Szczepan Twardoch: Wieloryby i ćmy. Dzienniki 2007–2015. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2015, ss. 276.]. Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies], 7(2), 269–282. Retrieved from https://trrest.vot.pl/ojsus/index.php/SSP/article/view/8769