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LEO LIPSKI’S PERVERSIVE CATHOLICISM AND THE TRANSUBSTANTIATION DOGMA

Author(s): Andrzej Brylak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: perversion; representation; sarx; soma; transubstantiation; Holocaust
Summary/Abstract: The author interprets the story Św. Paweł in the context of Leo Lipski’s interest in Catholicism, which can be seen in his prose and letters. Lipski uses St. Paulʼs conceptual matrix, but reverses its governing mechanisms: in Lipski’s version a physical body is transformed into a spiritual body not through negation, but through the affirmation of desire. This transformation is a nucleus of a major process of transforming the bodies of those murdered in Holocaust into a text. To this end, the writer transforms the formulae of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, inscribing the Catholic dogma of transubstantiation in his perversive literary project.

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