Срам и удвояване: "Фердидурке"
Shame and Doubling: "Ferdydurke"
Author(s): Benjamin PaloffContributor(s): Nikolay Genov (Translator)
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: doppelganger; double; Other; Self; shame
Summary/Abstract: This excerpt from Lost in the Shadow of the Word (Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe) (Northwestern University Press, 2016) addresses the structure of doubling in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke, with special emphasis on the role of shame in both the construction and disintegration of one's sense of self. In Paloff's reading, Gombrowicz exposes shame – whether in the presence of others or in moments of isolation, when one constitutes the Other by imagining his relentless gaze – as the painful awareness of Being, an awareness that the double makes physically manifest.
Journal: Филологически форум
- Issue Year: 5/2019
- Issue No: Special
- Page Range: 219-229
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Bulgarian