Maison de retraite
Maison de retraite

Summary/Abstract: The author of the text closely follows the literary and painterly evidence of existential experience, i.a. the confrontation with one’s old age and the perspective of encroaching death, or, more precisely, a confrontation of the actual state associated with the end of life with its much earlier, youthful image. A presentation of an encounter of an old man and his decades younger self – a meeting that makes it possible to experience both personal identity and profound transformation taking place in the course of a lifetime. The interpretations are based on the literary works and reminiscences-testimonies by Aleksander Wat and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, as well as paintings by Józef Czapski.

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