Przeciw entropii. Saszy Sokołowa gry z czasem
Against Entropy. Sasha Sokolov’s Games with Time

Summary/Abstract: In each of three novels by Sasha Sokolov, the category of time plays a vital role. In “A school for Fools”, “Between Dog and Wolf” and “Palisandriia”, the writer consistently explores “the philosophy of time.” In this article, the analysis focuses on the work titled “Between Dog and Wolf” since it is a text in which Sokolov intensifies his creative strategy. The writer is interested in time as a philosophical category, as well as anthropological, artistic, cultural and existential ones. By placing the category of time in the space of a game, the author of “A school for Fools” creates hybrid, processual and heterogeneous space-time of elements that permeate and interact with one another. “Games with time” deconstruct binary oppositions, such as linearity — cyclicality, temporality — atemporality, finiteness — eternity. At the same time the richness of language games becomes a generator of ambiguity, which destroys any homogeneous closed systems when they get deprived of the stimulating “difference”.

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