Published: 2021-12-31

On the Anguish of Youth, Ressentiment, Disgust, and the Question Whether Thomas Bernhard Read Witold Gombrowicz

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Section: Explorations and Autopsies
https://doi.org/10.31261/Rana.2021.4.05

Abstract

The article is an interpretation of Thomas Bernhard’s selected works in the context of the works of Witold Gombrowicz. In my opinion, the mysterious allusion to the Polish writer in the novel Gargoyles is an effect of not only the act of reading but also artistic inspiration. Both Bernhard and Gombrowicz are sensitive to the interpersonal aspect of existence and its cultural determinants. They perceive the family and school as oppressive institutions entangled in symbolic and real violence. The primary defence strategy of the protagonists is the affect of disgust.

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Bielecki, M. (2021) “On the Anguish of Youth, Ressentiment, Disgust, and the Question Whether Thomas Bernhard Read Witold Gombrowicz”, Rana. Literatura - Doświadczenie - Tożsamość [Wound. Literature – Experience – Identity], (2 (4), pp. 1–33. doi: 10.31261/Rana.2021.4.05.

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No. 2 (4) (2021)
Published: 2022-04-01


eISSN: 2719-5767
Ikona DOI 10.31261/rana

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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