Mit i egzystencja. "Czarodziejska góra" Tomasza Manna jako powieść antyinicjacyjna?

2012

Summary This article presents one of the many possible interpretations of Thomas Mann’s The MagicMountain without drawing an definitive conclusion. Hans Castorp’s experiences at Davos are explored in the context of the ritual of initiation and regeneration featured in Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. In Mann’s novel Castorp’s encounter with the death-tainted sanatorium routine carries a suggestion of an absorption into a community performing its rituals. However, unlike the Nietzschean mysteries these rituals pull its participants into a unregenerative circle of formlessness. In the initiation ritual the descent (kathodos) should be followed by an ascent (anodos). In the Hades of…

Nieprawdziwy koniec XIX wieku. Rec.: Ewa Paczoska, "Prawdziwy koniec XIX wieku. Śladami nowoczesności", Warszawa 2010

2014

"Noc jeanpaulowska" u Fiodora Dostojewskiego, Bolesława Prusa i Thomasa Manna

2016

Performerzy nowoczesności. Rec.: Magdalena Popiel, Świat artysty. Modernistyczne estetyki tworzenia. Kraków 2018

2020