Abstract: | The author of the article, inspired by Dariusz Nowacki’s review, proposes
a thesis opposite to that of the famous critic, who calls Szczepan Twardoch’s and Jacek
Dehnel’s diaries “a show-off of avatars.” In defence of Twardoch’s book, Wieloryby i ćmy
[Whales and moths] the author decides to concentrate on its ideological and literary
values. Most importantly, he strives to prove that the diaries constitute an original and
innovative attempt at developing a genre of intimate diaries and have a multifaceted
interpretive potential. The author of Morfina [Morphine] expresses in his diaries a desire
for “directing a great life,” understood as a consistent creation of literary works as well
as a life imitating literature. The analyses and commentaries included in the article focus
on the oppositions and hypostases found in the text, for example, of the world and
provincial, history and life, literature and nothingness, settlement and foreignness, life
and death, presence and absence, life according to spirit and life according to body,
responsibility and its lack. |