Tajemnica śmierci : z zagadnień prozy polskiej po 1989 roku

Abstract

Death is a experience, which is situated beetwen sacrum and profanum, individual and collective, general and intimate. It seems to be inexpressible, but (of course not only) in literature writers undertake trials showing (what is interpreted as accustomed) death through analysis of language, which the writers talk about her. Authoress is interested in linguistic ways, which the modem writers use to showing mortality in Polish prose after 1989 (Zapiski z nocnych dyżurów by Jacek Baczak, Metafizyka mięsa by Jolanta Brach-Czaina). Frequently the modem writers deny to sacral discourse, like Brach-Czaina, who remind about meat aspect of mortality or Baczak, who gives metaphisical-naturalistic “lesson of anatomy”, undergrown antropoloical reflection on relation of man to his sacral-squalid body. Death is something natural. It has also very natural explanation: disease and old age. To uncover intimacy of mortality partly submitted strategy of spectacle: it’s perceptible by prism of art and we can see sense od death. Different ways talking about death prove that it’s very complicated issue.