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Edgar Allan Poe e André de Lorde: alla ricerca dello spavento

Author(s): Tomasz Kaczmarek / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

Andre de Lorde was a very fruitful French writer who above all was known in Paris as an author of plenty funny dramas. His dramas were played on all Parisian stages and nobody would never expect him to became “the prince of fear”. One day he discovered Edgar Allan Poe’s story: The System of dr. Tarr and prof. Fether which shocked and inspired him somuch that he decided to write freezing the blood in veins stories from that day on. It is hard to analyze each of Lorde’s numerous dramas, therefore the Author presents in this article the three of his most characteristic pieces influenced by Poe’s style of writing.

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„Zatrważający związek człowieka z samym sobą”. Znaczenie fantastyki Edgara Allana Poego dla twórczości Charles’a Baudelaire’a

Author(s): Agnieszka Łazicka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

This article aims to analyse Poe’s and Baudelaire’s attitude toward idealism. Scolars have long considered whether Baudelaire might be named the disciple of Poe on this matter. There are still many diffirences of opinion. This article is an attempt to identify the discours against idealism in the tales of Poe and to show its influence on Baudelaire’s literary work. This is important to examine the idea that the French poet recognised in the oeuvre of the author of Ligeia the modern reflection on experience and art. Great attention must be given to the work of Baudelaire as a translator of American’s tales.

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The Concept of Equivalent Effect in Translation of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s Works

Author(s): Karolina Kwaśna / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The article assesses the impact of selected translation strategies, showing how they shape the atmosphere and overall impression of Polish translations of Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s short stories. Since 2012, new translation strategies have subsequently been observed and this gradual yet notable change is exemplified by Jin Di’s equivalence effect translation theory. By proposing four stages of work on translation and focusing on spirit, facts, and the artistic imaginary of the original text, Jin Di’s theory offers a revolutionary way of presenting Lovecraft’s world in all its splendor and glory to Polish readers.

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La conception du métafantastique de Stefan Grabiński, à l’exemple de L’Ombre de Baphomet

Author(s): Katarzyna Gadomska / Language(s): French Publication Year: 0

The present article discusses the conception of metafantastic literature by Stefan Grabiński – a Polish writer called the Polish Poe or the Polish Lovecraft, at the example of Baphomet’s Shadow, the novel of 1926. The specificity of his fantastic literature is based on constant references to philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus, Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Henri Bergson and William James, to name only a few. The study examines two of the most important ideas in Grabiński’s fantastic: the universal mobility and the polymorphic reality, as well as the primacy of thought over matter. Without the knowledge of these ideas, Grabiński’s fantastic becomes hermetic and incomprehensible.

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Stefan Grabiński i kolej – szkic z pogranicza literaturoznawstwa i kolejnictwa

Author(s): Michał Nikodem / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In my paper, I investigate Stefan Grabiński’s fascination on a railway. I analyse biographical materials, stories of his friends and writer’s own words to restore, in chronological order, his contacts with the railway. I use historical materials to supplement my research with concrete information about railway stations, trains and railway lines that were used by Grabiński. This historical reconstruction opens new perspective on the genesis of tome The Motion Demon and brings new interpretational opportunities. I also point out these fields of Grabiński biography which need to be precisely investigated in further historical researches.

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„Naturalny nadmiar luster”. Wenecja w opowiadaniach Stefana Grabińskiego i Edgara Allana Poego

Author(s): Małgorzata Ślarzyńska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article focuses on Venice represented in two tales: Stefan Grabiński’s Namiętność (L’appassionata). Opowieść wenecka and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Assignation. Although there are some similarities in the function of the motive of Venice in these texts, both authors adopt different strategies in introducing and using the motive, especially when it comes to the linguistic layer of the tales. Grabiński incorporates numerous foreign wordsin his story, making its language another mirror of Italian reality. Poe’s language is far more flat and univocal in the depiction of Venice. However, in his tale, as well as in the one written by Grabiński, of an utmost importance is the construction of protagonists – vampiric and full of contrast – which corresponds with the characteristics of the image of Venice.

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Demoniczne kobiety Edgara Allana Poego i Stefana Grabińskiego

Author(s): Agnieszka Loska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The purpose of present article is to draw the figures of female vampires in Edgar Allan Poe’s and Stefan Grabiński’s narratives. The article focuses on the analysis of two vampires’ traits: their unusual beauty and their lethal influence on victims. Particular attention was drawn to two Poe’s feminine characters: Berenice and Ligeia and two Grabiński’s: Sara (W domu Sary) and Mafra (Czarna Wólka). The aim of this analysis is to compare the motif of demonic female vampire in romantic and post‑romantic literature.

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Polsko‑amerykańskie różnice i podobieństwa kulturowe oraz ich odzwierciedlenia w utworach Stefana Grabińskiego, Edgara Allana Poego i Howarda Phillipsa Lovecrafta

Author(s): Tomasz Rożkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Stefan Grabiński were, without a doubt, great writers. Their short stories are a models for currently known genres of horror literature. But there are important and often forgotten about differences between their writings, which are visible in their cultural aspect. Although Poe and Lovecraft were both Americans, their short stories show a lot of differences. That being said, those are a result of the times they lived in and geographical differences (parts of United States, where they lived and worked in). For Lovecraft – it was New England, for Poe – Baltimore and northern states. Grabiński’s works are somewhat similar to Poe’s – they both prefer more traditional, gothicapproach, but there are also a few consistencies between him and Lovecraft. This world creation is only one aspect of their writings, but it clearly shows cultural similarities and differences between them. That’s why I made this excerpt a main topic of this article.

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Żywioł ziemi w poezji Władysława Sebyły

Author(s): Teresa Wilkoń / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Władysław Sebyła is creator of a “dark”, orphic movement, man with highly original imagination. Catastrophic motifs come across his expressive yet organized poetry.Visions of the imminent destruction of the world are combined with pessimistic images of the fearful reality. There comes a poet, breaking aestheticism of both Cracow Avant‑gardeand Skamander into the realm of ugliness, ahead of turpism poets of the “generation of 1956”. He desacralizes nature in his descriptions of nature’s elements, taking away the beauty of nature belonging to the main themes of Polish poetry and prose since Mickiewicz’s time.Władysław Sebyła was patronized by “the good God of details” – as Rilke said – buta certain fascination with details, so evident in the descriptions of the element of Earth(poem Młyny. Sonata nieludzka), stemmed from gloomy associations, dream visionsand some obsessions, often presented in the flash of the sun and lunar light.

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Metafizyczna podszewka rzeczywistości. O symbolice wody w wierszach Władysława Sebyły

Author(s): Anna Szóstak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article constitutes an attempt at identifying the motif of water in WładysławSebyła’s oeuvre and unraveling its symbolic connotations. A closer analysis of Sebyła’spoetry reveals a poetic view of reality whose signature and constitutive feature is the Baumanian idea of fluidity, inconstancy and changeability, which reflects the uncertainty of fate and the human condition both in mundane and eschatological perspectives. Water, found in various shapes and forms, both in liquid and solid state, evokes the metaphysics of life in Sebyła’s poetry at the same time as it directs the reader towards the inconceivable and the unnamable, to the Mystery hidden under the surface of things. Interestingly enough, the motif and its use by the poet do not serve exclusively to express only the catastrophic stance, but also to affirm life and remind the reader of the concept of apokatastasis – the belief in rebirth and the freeing power and the sense of people’s sacrifices.

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„Muzyka nocy tej”. Komentarz do wybranych wątków muzycznych w poezji Władysława Sebyły i diarystyce Sabiny Sebyłowej

Author(s): Bartosz Małczyński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article is devoted to the relationship between the Sebyła family and music. The text touches upon issues such as the value of music in their everyday life and the presence of various aspects of music in the writings of Sabina and Władysław, dating back primarily to the 1920s and 1930s, but including also the times of the German-Soviet occupation. The source material for these musings on the topic can be found in the poetry of Władysław Sebyła, particularly his Song of the Rat Catcher, as well as his wife’s biographical writings, which serve at the same time as an excellent source of insight into the history of the epoch. These issues are situated within the context of axiology, which has been recently approached by, among others, Pascal Quignard and Zbigniew Herbert, in order to formulate questions regarding the “inhuman” face of music, which emerges in times of social catastrophe.

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Muzyczność poezji Władysława Sebyły

Author(s): Milena Osiurak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article concentrates upon both theoretical and practical research on the mutual influence between literature and music in Władysław Sebyła’s poetry. The way in which the musicality of the pieces influences and co-creates the catastrophic vision of the world constitutes one of the marks of originality in Sebyła’s poetry. Sebyła, who was not only a poet, but also a musician – he played the piano and the violin – was an incredibly gifted artist whose unique sensibility allowed him to create works which seemed to oscillate between literature and music. This phenomenon could be called, according to Andrzej Hejmej, the musicality of poetry. It manifests in three basic spheres, identified by The Musicality of a Literary Work. Musicality of Sebyła’s poetry should be understood, then, as a transference between the arts, manifesting in the thematizing of music, the use of music terminology and forms, the shaping of language in the poems to underline the similarities between a lyrical and a musical piece (orchestration, particular phonaesthetics, the choice of meter and rhythm).

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Zwierzęta Sebyły

Author(s): Anna Węgrzyniak / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The object of analysis here is the imaging which uses the motifs of animals, typical of Sebyła’s “dark imagination”. The author of this article associates the presence of the animals with the space of childhood (the water of a pond, the moon, a mill, muddy darkness). In this lyrical poetry the motifs of animals function as metaphors, allegories, and symbols, while also referring to specific observations. The reader of Sebyła’s poetry can see and hear a horse or a rat, because the musical memory of the poet stores the voices remembered from childhood. The sensitive imagination of the poet, a bard who thinks through images, is the tremendous value of this poetry.

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Od hipiki do hippomancji. Konie Sebyły

Author(s): Beata Mytych-Forajter / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The following article results from the reading of Sebyła’s poems which touch upon the subject of horses or motifs and imageries which refer to that particular sphere. At the same time, the article attempts to transcend the parabolic interpretation in order to revisit and reinterpret the presence of horses in Sebyła’s poetry, including both information regarding the animals themselves as well as their general perception in the public sphere (war, social life, sport). The recurring image of blind horses seems to strangely complement the images of blind people, pointing to the poignancy and importance of metaphors drawn from the sphere of Equus caballus, which serves to express Sebyła’s existential fears.

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„Robactwo z czarnych łąk”. Na marginesie lektury Młynów. Sonaty nieludzkiej

Author(s): Magdalena Kokoszka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author of the following article is interested primarily by the dark facet of Sebyła’s natural vitalism, which she traces alongside her reading of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka (Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata). Over the bogs, marshes, swamps and wetlands, there exists a multiplicity of nighttime animal life which, regardless of the actual species, exhibits a worm-like fertility. This close-up on the rotting, decaying matter exposes the ugliness of ever-present entropy while at the same time uncovering the peculiar post mortem life – the unending “viscous” liminal state, the substance of the world in flux. It seems, then, that the viscous matter discussed in the article, which connects the spheres of water and moist, open soil, had to a large extent dominated the imagination of the poet.

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Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. Poemat paraboliczny

Author(s): Anna Szawerna-Dyrszka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The author of the article, in her reading of Młyny. Sonata nieludzka. (Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata), focuses primarily on the genological aspect. The poem, described bySebyła’s contemporaries as a poem without a peer, fully original and inimitable, appearsto function as the initial link in a new genre paradigm, i.e. the parable poem. The similarities between Sebyła’s poem with works such as Przyjście wroga (The Coming of the Enemy) by Jerzy Zagórski, Bramy arsenału (The Gates of the Arsenal) by Czesław Miłosz, Tropiciel (The Tracker) by Aleksander Rymkiewicz and Pełnia czerwca (The Height of June) by Wacław Iwaniuk points to the similarities between the imaginations of the poets. Windmills. The Inhuman Sonata should be regarded as one of the first and most important poems of the second vanguard (and a model example of this genre variant), as well as an indisputable source of inspiration for the poets of Vilnius and Lublin, belonging to the generation of 1910.

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„Nazywaniem chcesz mi szukanie zastąpić?”. O Koncercie egotycznym Władysława Sebyły

Author(s): Ewelina Mika / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article constitutes a commentary on Władysław Sebyła’s Koncert egotyczny (An egotistical Concert. A Meditative Poem). The poet, who assumes a metapoetic stance,expresses the moods as well as the existential and ideological problems of the early 20th century, such as the need for a stable ideology and canon of values. In his attempt to answer the problems of the 20th century man, Sebyła identifies two major cognitive stances: “naming” and “seeking.” “Seeking” becomes for him a certain primary rule of existence and an important element of his creative work at the same time. It could be also understood in terms of a skeptical stance, embodied by the character of Hamlet (and St. Thomas Aquinas).

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„…czyś ptakiem, drzewem, czy kamieniem?”. Ojcze nasz Władysława Sebyły jako cykl modlitewnych paradoksów

Author(s): Katarzyna Janus / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article constitutes an attempt at an interpretation of Władysław Sebyła’s poem Ojcze nasz (Our Father). The explication of the text is preceded by references to earlier religious poems written by the poet, which serve to establish a proper context for the reading of the poem. The article postulates that Sebyła can be characterized by his antitheism. This concept, in turn, in the context of explaining the provenance of the creative act, was elaborated in more detail by Tadeusz Zieliński, whose lectures Sebyła attended regularly. The hypothesis concerning the “borrowing” of the idea of antitheism seems to be confirmed by the lexical dimension of the poem as well as frequent allusions to Nietzsche’s philosophy.The article attempts to foreground the discussed poems in the Bible, explain the existence of religious symbolism, identify the poet’s sources of inspiration and point to the dialogue between the poet and tradition. In the conclusion, the author formulates a thesis which postulates that Sebyła’s poetry presented in the article remains deeply religious at its core, even though its religious nature does not seem very obvious at the first glance.

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ANTIRATNO PISMO U ROMANU SEVDALINKA AJŠE KULIN

Author(s): Muris Bajramović / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Ayse Kulin is a contemporary Turkish writer. In her novel Sevdalinka (Sarajevo of love and war) she is writing about the rising nationalism in the nineties. In literary theory she is using the poetics of the war letter. The novel is following love story between Stefan and Nimeta. It is showing how are the intimate stories and lives deeply contaminated by the history and politics, as the story shows.

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DIJASPORIČNI IDENTITET(I) – OD KREATORA DO PROMOTORA BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKE KULTURE

Author(s): Šeherzada Džafić / Language(s): Bosnian Publication Year: 0

Given that the Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora represents one type of the promoters of Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture, this paper aims to review interliterary processes and intercultural permeations within cultural associations of Bosnian-Herzegovinian diaspora, which are characterized as diasporic identities for the purpose of this paper.

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