“How Many Animals Did Moses Take onto the Ark?” The Animal-like, the Child-like and the Poetical According to Justyna Bargielska
Keywords:
Justyna Bargielska, animal-like, child-like, riddle, MosesAbstract
The text is an interpretation of a poem by Justyna Bargielska titled Katullka from the Nudelman (2014) volume. The author uses the literary idea of meeting herself from many years before. The occasion was her discovery of her own childish notes showing her knowledge about the world in the form of three riddles. The most difficult and most important of them (“How many animals did Moses take onto the Ark”?) is based on the mixing of two expressions: “Noah’s Ark” and “the Ark of the Covenant” (Moses’). The deceptive question of the child forces us to seek animals in the Bible (especially in the Decalogue), which leads to surprising theological conclusions concerning relations with God and animals. In the finale of the poem, the writing of the seven-year-old girl is eaten by a roe deer; this is a symbolic suggestion of a “communion” between the child-like and the animal-like.
References
"Szybko przez wszystko i ruchy Browna. Z Justyną Bargielską rozmawia Aleksander Nawarecki.” portliteracki.pl/przystan/teksty/–justyna-bargielska-rozmawia–aleksander–nawa- recki/ [access: 04.05.2015].
“Dziura na ogon. Z Justyną Bargielską rozmawia Agata Kula.” Tygodnik Powszechny, no. 37 (2011).
Bargielska, J. “Katullka.” In Nudelman. Wrocław, 2014.
Bargielska, J. Bach for my baby. Wrocław, 2012.
Bargielska, J. Czy Leda może zjeść łabędzia? Lecture delivered at the University of Silesia in Katowice on 28 May 2014 (submitted for publication in Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne).
Buksa, E. "Ptaki, świerszcze i cykady w poezji greckiej i rzymskiej.” In Miniatura i mikrologia literacka. Ed. A. Nawarecki. Katowice, 2000.
Huizinga, J. Homo ludens. Zabawa jako źródło kultury. Transl. M. Kurecka, W. Wirpsza. Warsaw, 1967.
Katullus. Poezje wszystkie. Transl. G. Franczak, A. Klęczar. Kraków, 2013.
Le Rouzic, P. Wpływ imienia na życie. Transl. E. Sękowska. Warsaw, 1990.
Novalis. Uczniowie z Sais. Proza filozoficzna. Studia. Fragmenty. Translated and compiled by. J. Prokopiuk. Warszawa, 1978.
Pismo Święte Starego i Nowego Testamentu. Compiled by a group of Polish biblical scholars on the initiative of the Benedictines of Tyniec. Poznań–Warszawa, 1980.
Szymborska, W. Tutaj. Kraków, 2009.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.
1. License
The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".
ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).
3. User Rights
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
4. Co-Authorship
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.
