Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego doświadczenie "religijnego"

Abstract

Verbalisation of the religious experience is one of the most important aspect of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s literary output. The author considers himself as a writer “of what is in between” i.e. “a writer of another dimension”. Furthermore, this- the description of “the space between two words, for example between dream and reality, death and life” — is seen by him as specificity of his short stories. The author’s declaration, crowning his reflection upon his own profession is particularly interesting: “Obviously, I didn’t make it up, but it is my property in such a way that I discovered in myself this disposition”. Taking into consideration this feature, the authoress proposes to consider the S(s)ecret in-scribed in Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s literary output in the key of eponymous — constructed particularly for the sake of showing the uniqueness of the presented verbalization — category of “experience of the »religious«”. An entity related to the experience of “what is »religious«, what relates to religion, concerns religion and is connected with religion” is integrally bound to once presented concept of the “language of the »religious«” as an object of theolinguistic research. Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s way of presenting religious issues is both characteristic and universal. Their shape, as one can assume, is a direct result of Grudziński’s fate. The article makes the hypothesis that Grudziński’s religious experiences — in stubbornness, revolt, continuous fight: around truth and concentrated on truth — could constitute, even a rudiment, of an experience, which theologists call “the experience of faith”.