Między mową a od‑mową. O dwóch literackich obrazach transgatunkowej komunikacji
Between Talking and Refusing to Talk: On Two Literary Images of Trans ‑species Communication

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the problem of communication between a human and a non-human animal, analyzed in the context of animal studies against the background of a diverse literary tradition. The article analyzes two literary acts of trans-species communication that are poles apart in the texts Report to the Academy by Franz Kafka (1917) and The Final Scene by Kornel Filipowicz (1977). The monologue of the civilized chimpanzee as well as the refusal of the gorillas to remain silent, mark the extent to which animal protagonists respond to the oppression of objectifying assimilation in the stories under discussion. Both fictions, through the literary strategies adopted, compromise the human being and the human-centric perspective in the face of insurmountable (or seemingly defeated) otherness.

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