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• Title:
  “…to the park… to the park” A Prelude to the Interpretation of the Park Scene
• Creator:
  Maroszczuk, Grażyna;
  Kokoszka, Magdalena
• Description:
  A park is described in this article as a scene of public life where members of the modern society develop their shared forms of behaviour. This is also the perspective of interpretation for the final scene of Witold Gombrowicz’s short story Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer. A humorous portrait of manners drawn by the author could constitute a peculiar commentary to the nightlife of the Warsaw parks of the 1920s. A park seems to be a suitable metaphor chosen to tell the story of a lawyer and “a dancer”, as well as of the complex social relations determined by humanizing actions and the feeling of uncertainty about human nature which constantly evades them. The authors of the article are particularly interested in this “uncertain” aspect of nature inscribed in the figure of an urban garden, which reminds us that all our calls for regulation are just an appearance, a veil hiding an always distant phantasm.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
• Date:
  2018.06.29
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne [Silesian Journal of Polish Studies]; Vol. 11 No. 1 (2018): Park: Space and Metaphor. Presentations: Natalia Malek; 147-162;
  Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2018): Park. Przestrzeń i metafora. Prezentacje: Natalia Malek; 147-162;
  2353-0928;
  2084-0772
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
• Relation: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8672/6683
• Subject:
  park;
  Witold Gombrowicz;
  Lawyer Kraykowski’s Dancer;
  conditio humana;
  manners;
  Lawyer Kraykowski's Dancer
• Identifier: https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/SSP/article/view/8672
• Data provider:
  Czasopisma Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
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• Type:
  text