Sarkofag i drzwi. Rzecz o kruchości
Sarcophagus and Door. On Fragility

Summary/Abstract: "Chernobyl Prayer" by Svetlana Alexievich is a multi-text organism whose meaning can be projected in many ways. While reading the book the author of this article omitted several essential discourses among those most often exposed in analytical texts: political, technological, religious, futurological, etc., and concentrated predominantly on the existential discourse: a register of the suffering, pain, and death experienced by the participants of the catastrophe. The conclusion contrasts two metaphors present in the discussed text: ”sarcophagus” and ”door”, suggesting that they summarise two contradictory modes of thinking about the Chernobyl catastrophe.

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