Bolesława Micińskiego i Zygmunta Haupta rozważania o wojnie – szkic do portretu paralelnego
Bolesław Miciński’s and Zygmunt Haupt’s reflections on war – a sketch for a parallel portrait

Author(s): Paweł Panas
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Boleslaw Micinski; Zygmunt Haupt; essays; exile; war
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes essays by Boleslaw Micinski in which reflections of war appear. Micinski reinterprets the Freudian way of thinking about war as a fundamental existential scandal. For the author of Journey to Hell, self-destructive (on many levels) war annihilation destroys the people and communities it affects and by which it was unleashed. However, at the same time it gives humankind the opportunity to make fundamental decision about humanity. The opportunity arises to choose a dignified life crowned with a true mysterium mortis. Zygmunt Haupt’s prose, in whose literary works this theme also comes into view, is the context for these analyses. In Haupt’s prose, war is primarily an experience of omnipresent death. Both Micinski and Haupt contemplate on how to deal with this stigma that marked them as 20th-century exiles.

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