Groza i wyobraźnia / groza wyobraźni
Horror and Imagination/Horror of the Imagination

Summary/Abstract: A sketch dedicated to the relation between the categories of horror and imagination. Its author interprets the relation in question by resorting interchangeably to The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz, and The Orphanage by Serhiy Zhadan. In each of those works lead protagonists experience horror in a different way. Gregor Samsa noticed that after changing into an insect he lost the possibility of communicating with humans; Witold from Cosmos becomes terrified by the inability to comprehend and put into order a world deprived of any sort of an authority capable of introducing order, while Pashka from The Orphanage experiences horror in a real world – faced with war and threat, imagination ceases to be necessary. The context of those micro-interpretations is a reflection on the source of the functioning of horror in modern and postmodern pop culture, confronted with the tragic events of the twentieth century and contemporary times.

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