A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes

Gruzinska, Aleksandra; Gombrowicz, Witold

doi:10.2307/4143896

Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature

2006

DOI: 10.2307/4143896

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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes

Aleksandra Gruzinska¹,

Witold Gombrowicz²

Abstract: A popular referendum on April 27, 1969, offered French voters a variety of proposed administrative reforms. When President Charles de Gaulle received an unexpected defeat in the vote, he resigned the presidency the following day and went into retirement. [Translator's note.] w i t o l d g o m b r o w i c z w i t o l d g o m b r o w i c z 4 Dominique de Roux. [Except as otherwise specified, all notes appeared in the original French edition.-Ed.]

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

Paić¹

2015

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i "slavenska duša"Dalekim poljskim prijateljima Gombrowicz ili o pobuni egzistencijeIskustvo moderne povijesti Europe može se nazvati praksom razaranja jezika kao forme duhovnoga bitka. Jezik posjeduje mističnu moć u višezna-čnome kazivanju istine. Zbog toga se čak i u doba-bez-riječi određeno prelaskom u posthumano stanje digitalne slike osjeća potreba za uspostavom nove opće gramatike. Tko želi govoriti o duhovnome identitetu Europe u moderno doba, ne može zanijekati da se svijest o nužnosti destrukcije jezika pojavljuje drugim početkom "naroda" izvan bilo kakve redukcije na mitske slike o veličini i žrtvi povijesti. Povijesna avangarda prve polovine 20. stoljeća bila je univerzalna forma preusmjeravanja povijesti iz bezuvjetnoga napretka u spirale budućnosti. Zagledana istodobno u iskon i ono nadolazeće, avangarda je otvarala nove perspektive duhovnoga razvitka. Posvuda se zbivalo ono "Isto" u razlikama: ruska avangarda i ukrajinska, poljska i talijanska, njemačka i francuska. Nisu više važne nacionalne razlike. Presudne su razlike u pristupu jeziku i slici onoga nadolazećega u suigri kaosa i forme. Jedan od pouzdanih svjedoka ovoga dugovjeka događanja u vlastitome labirintu znakova zacijelo je poljski književnik Witold Gombrowicz. Prethodnik egzistencijalnoga nemira epohe kraja individuuma u doba planetarne tehnike u romanu Ferdydurke napisanome 1937. godine govori o sukobu između stvaranja i razaranja forme. Jezik se ponajprije pojavljuje svezom ideje i kazivanja događaja s kojim nastaje susret. Dramatski susret nije, međutim, susret između Dvojega, subjekta i njegova dvojnika. Susret je to s licem Drugoga. U svojoj drugosti taj Drugi uvijek je uistinu netko Treći.

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Mi, s rubova Europe: Sumorni jezik i „slavenska duša”

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2015

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Freddy Durkee and Ferdydurke:

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2015

Comparative Literature Studies

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The title of Witold Gombrowicz's first novel, Ferdydurke, has inspired a great deal of speculation as to its possible meanings since the work was first published in 1937. Even in 1986, when Bodgan Baran discovered that the title came from Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt, the matter was still not put to rest. In this essay, the author attempts to discover the meaning behind Gombrowicz's choice of title through a Gombrowiczian reading of Lewis's popular but generally understudied novel. Lewis scholarship has been rather sparse, owing mostly to the attitude that his works were merely examples of popular literature not worth further examination. After using Ferdydurke to explain Gombrowicz's artistic theories, the author applies these to Babbitt, demonstrating that the sociological descriptions underline deeper philosophical understandings of the world that Gombrowicz would later develop in his own writings. These are then reflected in the approach that Gombrowicz and Lewis take to their position as author and artist within their respective national cultures.

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