W poszukiwaniu „ja”. Henryk Elzenberg, Stanisław Brzozowski i Karol Ludwik Koniński wobec choroby, bólu i cierpienia
In the search of „I”. Henryk Elzenberg, Stanisław Brzozowski and Karol Ludwik Koniński towards illness, pain and suffering

Author(s): Maciej Michalski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents three different representations of illness and pain in spirituals autobiographies of Henryk Elzenberg, Stanisław Brzozowski and Karol Ludwik Koniński. „Kłopot z istnieniem” by Elzenberg shows more distant attitude, where subject is well hidden behind discourse and the illness is only an inspiration to make some general philosophical reflections on subjectivity. „Pamiętnik” by Brzozowski is an evidence of very dramatic struggle with pain, time and death and a testimony of a tension between different attitudes toward life and author’s work. „Uwagi” by Koniński is also very dialectical, but the subject seems to find a support and basis in God and religion. A searching of „I”, attempts to constitute the self, subjectivity, are common for all of them. The experience of illness and pain is both a catalyst and a reference point in this self-creational projects.

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