Gry przemocy w powieściach Król i Królestwo Szczepana Twardocha
Acts of Violence in Szczepan Twardoch’s Novels Król [The King of Warsaw] and Królestwo [The Kingdom]

Summary/Abstract: In Szczepan Twardoch’s novels Król [The King of Warsaw] and Królestwo [The Kingdom],the modernist order is based on violence – a violence transforms the old world into thenew one. This “founding violence” (René Girard) is a travesty of the myth of the cosmicturning point, of the victim-king and the downfall of his kingdom. Twardoch showshow in this process a new anthropology is born. Within that anthropology, Jews (beingrepresentatives of the order once revealed by God and now considered obsolete) areeventually excluded. They become the victim whose death is to bring an ideologicalpurification of the world. Hence the Shoah is perceived as an embodiment of a gameof uncertain rules – in Girard’s terms, this is “a game of mortal fear”, a fear that is desiredonly to be finally “overcome in death and downfall”.

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