Świat metafor owadzich w "Dziennikach czasu wojny" Zofii Nałkowskiej
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2013
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The World of Insect Metaphors in Zofia Nałkowska’s "Dzienniki czasu wojny" [Diaries of Wartime]
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The main aim of the article is an analysis of entomological motifs in the Nałkowska’s wartime diary. The surprising frequency of these motifs gives an opportunity for a more general discussion: the key context for an explanation of insect metaphors seems to be the tendency, common for modernist authors, to place the concept of humanity in a widely understood philosophy of nature. The rule would also apply for the war, or more generally, for mechanisms of human violence, which Nałkowska subjects in her diary to a peculiar darwinistic representation. Understanding the war as a “naturalistic fact” (Hanna Kirchner’s description) results in a gradual blurring of the differences between the violence of nature and the violence of history. The author of the article has identified a similar procedure in Czesław Miłosz’s work, which constitutes a specific counterpoint for Nałkowska’s wartime diary.
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Zofia Nałkowska, literature and entomology, history and nature, war (atrocity) and sociobiology, Dzienniki czasu wojny
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Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013, nr 21, s. 123-146
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1233-8680