TY  - JOUR
IS  - 2
Y1  - 2021/03/01/
PB  - the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America in New York and the University of Illinois Press and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
A1  - Zechenter, K
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5406/polishreview.66.2.0128
SP  - 128
KW  - modern Polish litrature
KW  -  non-anthropocentrism
KW  -  Nobel Prize in Literature
KW  -  Olga Tokarczuk
KW  -  Henryk Sienkiewicz
KW  -  Wislawa Szymborska
KW  -  Czeslaw Milosz
KW  -  W?adys?aw Reymont
TI  - From ?Poland?s Genius? to the World as ?a living, single entity:? World, Literature and Writer?s Duty in Lectures of Polish Laureates of Nobel Prize in Literature (1905-2019)
N2  - Reading the Nobel Prize Lectures delivered by Polish Nobel laureates in literature from 1905 to 2019 as one mutually influencing narrative (the so-called ?collective narrative?) clearly suggests the changing direction of how Polish writers perceive the world, Poland, and the social obligations of literature towards humanity. The early focus on Poland?s loss of independence and the injustice of fate (Henryk Sienkiewicz) gave way to seeing the entire world as a unity (Wis?awa Szymborska, Czes?aw Mi?osz, Olga Tokarczuk). The mutually exclusive participation in life and being a detached observer. although seen as an insolvable contradiction (Mi?osz) is acknowledged. but now with the urgent need for an engagement with the world?s fate (Szymborska, Tokarczuk). Literature is seen as a vehicle for painful memory and the acknowledgment of the injustices of the twentieth century (Mi?osz), a tool of analysis of the human and non-human condition in general (Szymborska), and as a way of telling stories that represents the only remaining path to universal human understanding and bond (Tokarczuk). For Tokarczuk, ?the tender narrator? represents the powerful connection necessary for searching for meaning and interhuman communication in the face of an approaching danger of the destruction of the world by humans.
VL  - 66
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery10105488
AV  - public
EP  - 145
JF  - The Polish Review
ER  -