Od autora do czytelnika : o doświadczeniu sztuki w "Tataraku" Andrzeja Wajdy

Abstract

The author of the article, analysing the film Tatarak from 2009, examines a special case of interpretation of a literary text made on a cinema screen and shows the triple presence of Andrzej Wajda in this work: as a director, as a writer and as a reader. The research, especially concerning the introduction of an auto-thematic thread and making it a framework for Iwaszkiewicz’s story, leads to the conclusion that this trick not only supplements the literary story with an analogous experience of the death of a loved one, occurring in a world outside of (and superior to) the text world, but also reveals the source of artistic creativity or art par excellance. It is supposed to be the ethical responsibility for the other and the duty to provide, by one’s own artistic means, an entrusted, foreign but authentic experience. Achieving this truth, value and sense of artistic activity is achieved through the experience (as understood by John Dewey) of literature/art, and in this particular case – reading and interpreting a literary work.