Czarnoksięskie przeznaczenie. Georges’a Bataille’a batalia o mit a Bruno Schulz
Sorcerous Destiny: Georges Bataille’s battle for myth and Bruno Schulz

Author(s): Marcin Hanuszkiewicz
Subject(s): Philosophy, Social Philosophy, French Literature, Polish Literature, Contemporary Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Georges Bataille; Bruno Schulz; Jean Baudrillard; myth; destiny
Summary/Abstract: Beginning with an outline of the twentieth-century condition, in reference to the ideas of Jean Baudrillard, Martin Heidegger and Tadeusz Sławek, among others (thinkers whose texts are also the sources of the terminology used), the author discusses in this context the text The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Georges Bataille. The author pays particular attention to the notions of destiny, seduction and myth, and conducts the analysis by means of both philosophical (referring also to other writings by Bataille) and literary polyphony. The considerations culminate in the identification of the commonalities between the approach to myth presented in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Bruno Schulz’s famous concept of the mythization of reality.

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