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

Abstract

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.