selected articles
Column_IS IT POSSIBLE THROUGH A PANE?
One of the matters of this polemic – who knows if not the main one – is love. Not the average one but true and maybe even unconditional.
The matter is such serious insomuch love is love but the exchange of opinions between Agata Bielik-Robson and Kazimiera Szczuka concerns also a betrayal of feministic ideals, which I’m not so familiar with. What’s more my opinion is that as far as commenting separately texts of those two polemists is a task for staid people with discriminating views concerning most of the matters or even all matters, on the other hand commenting views of both polemists in the same time is a desperate deed. Still or just because of it I’ll try.
press review
SHORT STORY AS A DISABLED GENRE
The first this year issue of Cracovian “Dekada Literacka” (1/2007) makes a goal of, to quote Robert Ostaszewski’s introduction, putting the proverbial cat among the pigeons, being in the same time aware that pigeons may stay indifferent. It is because the way short stories function on our literary market is a unique phenomenon: we still suffer from the sentiment for thick volumes in glossy covers, for the worlds where you can move in for a couple of evenings
BETWEEN A METASTASIS AND A HORSE TAIL
As a person with skeptical view about the art classified only in a “feministic” category I’ve read this article (Natalia LL dominuje, Konopka rządzi / Natalia LL dominates, Konopka rules, “Exit” [2 (70) 2007] with a lot of joy. Truszkowski has a socio-ecological verve, which isn’t very common in Poland, especially in reasoning concerning art – and grounds some ideas of woman artists exhibiting in Bielska BWA. He asks for example: “Does Ewa Kaja, in her works concerning hair as an accessory to women, pick out that braids used by her are made from horses’ tails? Not long ago those were fragments of live animals. People kill them thoughtlessly and without any need, so many gentle animals that we don’t need to eat”.
LUXURY OF ABANDONMENT
In the March issue of “Znak” (3/2006) we read about the reasons why Masters are sometimes abandoned despite the fact that they are so hard to find. Krzysztof Dorosz talks about his fascination with Jung, about the religious quests inspired by his concepts and what definitely induced him to choose another path. At the beginning it appeared to the author, whose adventure with Jung started when he was nineteen, that he found “a patron of all deep thoughts and guide in the world of truth.” Theories of the psychologist gave him, what it seemed, the insight into “reality hidden under the surface of not only life but also intellect.”