Rembrandt and the Loneliness of Christ: Osip Mandelstam’s *** [Like Rembrandt, Martyr of Chiaroscuro…] and Aleksander Wat’s The Gospel also as a Literary Masterpiece Cover Image

Rembrandt i samotność Chrystusa: *** [Tak jak męczennik światłocienia – Rembrandt...]Osipa Mandelsztama i Ewangelia także jako arcydzieło literatury Aleksandra Wata
Rembrandt and the Loneliness of Christ: Osip Mandelstam’s *** [Like Rembrandt, Martyr of Chiaroscuro…] and Aleksander Wat’s The Gospel also as a Literary Masterpiece

Author(s): Magdalena Śniedziewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Osip Mandelsztam; nadezdha Mandelsztam; Aleksander Wat; Rembrandt; Golgothe; episode in the Gethsemane; literature and painting

Summary/Abstract: For years, Porówania has focused on diverse correspondences between cultures, ethnic literatures, areas of art, inhabitants of various geographical spaces, imagined communities, contemporary discourses, etc. This volume is dedicated to the conversational strategies artists established between language and the visual arts, but also to the broader, and often variously defined, area of Central Europe. We were interested in the relationship between different (thematically and functionally) intersemiotic translation strategies with regard to cultural events and changes in the socio-political life of Central European nations, dominant communities and ethnic minorities. We also wanted to address the similarities and differences visible in this area on the basis of the different literatures and art (domestic and emigration; high-art and popular art). The selected case studies gathered in this volume are meant at least initially to outline a map of diverse intersemiotic relations, the coordinates of which are determined, on the one hand, by the broadly understood category of visibility and, on the other, by the cultural, social, political changes imposed on the Central European nations and communities they helped form. We wanted to ask the following question: does the changeability of the intersemiotic phenomena and theories justify the strength of the caesura, which we used to take for granted in ethnic literatures of this part of Europe? Does it help to better describe the “isms,” which have been developed by modern art and literature?

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 28
  • Page Range: 21-42
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish
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