Suffering body and ontological human remains in 'Sen srebrny Salomei' by Juliusz Słowacki Cover Image

Ciało cierpiące i ontologiczne strzępy człowieczew Śnie srebrnym Salomei Juliusza Słowackiego
Suffering body and ontological human remains in 'Sen srebrny Salomei' by Juliusz Słowacki

Author(s): Magdalena Ciechańska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Aesthetics, Polish Literature, Existentialism, 19th Century, Theory of Literature, Ontology, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki; Sen srebrny Salomei; romanticism; carnality; body; suffering; macabre;

Summary/Abstract: The article relates to the issue of the suffering body in Juliusz Słowacki’s drama 'Sen srebrny Salomei'. The first and the second part of the article are dedicated to the description of the main drama characters who are media of supernatural reality, and the analysis of the co-existing worlds of human beings and spirits. The third part includes the interpretation of the ‘poetics of macabre’ and ‘theater of pain’, the phenomenon of vivisection and the ontology of ‘human remains’. The author reads Słowacki’s drama through the prism of Michel Henry’s philosophy of existence.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 192-208
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish