Attentive Miron. Ecocritical motifs in the prose of Miron Białoszewski Cover Image

Uważny Miron. Wątki ekokrytyczne w prozie Mirona Białoszewskiego
Attentive Miron. Ecocritical motifs in the prose of Miron Białoszewski

Author(s): Ewelina Bulewicz
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Miron Białoszewski; ecocriticism; Chamowo; Konstancin; nature; non-human others; attentiveness

Summary/Abstract: Ten years have just passed since the publication of Tajny dziennik and Miron Białoszewski’s prose continues to demand the discovery of new threads in it; also, in the context of the Anthropocene. The aim of my article will be to analyze and interpret the ecocritical motifs present in the works of the author of Pamiętnik z powstania warszawskiego, which oscillate around the relation between the author-narrator and non-human others. The subject of my research will be two important prose volumes written by Białoszewski in the mid-1970s: Konstancin and Chamowo, which have been relatively little studied in the context of posthumanism or the category of attentiveness. In this article I will present the attitude of the author to animals, plants, and garbage, which has been partially discussed by Agnieszka Karpowicz in her works. Moreover, I will prove that each of the aforementioned motifs perfectly fits into the current discourse on human-animal, nature-culture relations.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 57
  • Page Range: 1-23
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish
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