Widmowy materialism Stefana Grabińskiego
The phantasmal materialism of Stefan Grabiński

Author(s): Katarzyna Trzeciak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: spectral materialism; Eric Santner; haunted spaces; modern subjectivity
Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the question of modernity in selected Stefan Grabiński’s short stories. The experience of modern reality is based on the dissociation of stable forms and fundamental laws of reality. The modern order implicates changes among the forms of haunting. Taking the concept of Eric Santner’s “spectral materialism” the article shows how Grabiński’s heroes are dealing with the substance of reality which absorbs the traces of the past, perceive by the subjectivity as weird and unreal. Modern subjectivity presented in Grabiński’s stories is then penetrated by the past that cannot be fully present and understand.

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