Jerzy Jarzȩbski
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506793 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerzy Jarzȩbski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerzy |
| FAMILY NAME | Jarzȩbski |
| SIGNATURE | JARZȨBSKI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University, Kraków |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cosmic Signals of Stanisław Lem
Communicating productively with an alien intelligence, whether by traveling through space to another civilization or attempting to understand their messages received here on Earth, is so consistent a commonplace of cosmic science fiction that we might easily regard it as a defining feature of the genre. This essay argues, by contrast, that Stanisław Lem's fiction about space travel aims consistently to demonstrate the impossibility of such commun…
Kolabo po polsku – wczoraj i dziś
Autor artykułu analizuje różnicę pomiędzy „złytoptakami” a pieszczochami politycznych systemów. Ci pierwsi są często precyzyjnie określeni, wyraźniejsi w swoich poglądach, natomiast ci drudzy – „zamazani”, często terająca dwa fronty, a już szczególnie upodobali sobie figurę Konrada Wallenroda. Takie środowiska najlepiej opisywali Jerzy Andrzejewski czy Leopold Tyrmand, ale ważna była też dyskusja wokół Traktatu o gnidach Piotra Wierzbickiego. Aut…
Olga Tokarczuk’s Portrait of Jacob Frank against the Backdrop of His Times
In Księgi Jakubowe [The Books of Jacob], a fictionalized account of the eighteenth-century religious leader Jacob Frank and his followers, Olga Tokarczuk crafts a narrative that privileges the diverse and often nonconvergent perspectives of characters caught up in historical events that they do not fully understand. Likewise, in Bieguni [Flights], Tokarczuk allows the diverse narratives making up this “constellation novel” to unfold under the aut…
Kronos and Literature
The publication of Witold Gombrowicz’s Kronos elicited a range of reactions from its readers: from affirmative to aggressive. The aggressive ranged from civil to brutal and rude. Jerzy Franczak (at the civil end of the spectrum) maintains that Kronos does not teach anything, does not aid the reader, and appears totally unnecessary—it does not pass the test of reading as literature.1 At the other end of the spectrum, expressed mainly in Internet f…
Gombrowicz i Szekspir
Intertextualité et connaissance dans l'œuvre de Stanisław Lem
Intertekstualność a poznanie u Lema Rozpatruję tutaj szczególne formy, jakie przybiera intertekstualność w utworach science fiction, zwłaszcza w prozie Stanisława Lema. Autor SF konstruuje swój tekst w korespondencji nie tylko z tekstami zastanymi w realnym świecie swojej kultury, ale też ze sferą tekstów fikcyjnych, należących do fantastycznej rzeczywistości, w której umieścił fabułę. Istotne dla literatury SF jest więc zderzenie języków tradycy…
The World as Code and Labyrinth
In Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, written in 1960 and published in 1961, we find — as in Solaris which dates from the same time — the world as metaphor and a blending of inner and outer experience;1 we also find the methodological directives of The Investigation (1959),2 only now they are applied to an attempt to solve the mysteries of one's existence (or that of the hero), rather than the mystery of the disappearances of corpses from a mortuary, as…
Stanislaw Lem’s “Star Diaries”
Lem’s “Star Diaries” have a special place among his story-cycles, since they span most of his career and reflect his changing concerns. Still, they have a common theme: the presumptuousness of the intellect. The cycle begins in the farcical mode of the Miinchhausen tales, parodying the typical attitudes of Earthlings claiming the status of general truth for their subjective opinions. Ijon Tichy here is Mainly the comic victim of these opinions: t…
Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary
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Stanislaw Lem, Rationalist and Visionary
Stanislaw Lem’s “Star Diaries”
Lem’s “Star Diaries” have a special place among his story-cycles, since they span most of his career and reflect his changing concerns. Still, they have a common theme: the presumptuousness of the intellect. The cycle begins in the farcical mode of the Miinchhausen tales, parodying the typical attitudes of Earthlings claiming the status of general truth for their subjective opinions. Ijon Tichy here is Mainly the comic victim of these opinions: t…
The World as Code and Labyrinth
In Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, written in 1960 and published in 1961, we find — as in Solaris which dates from the same time — the world as metaphor and a blending of inner and outer experience;1 we also find the methodological directives of The Investigation (1959),2 only now they are applied to an attempt to solve the mysteries of one's existence (or that of the hero), rather than the mystery of the disappearances of corpses from a mortuary, as…
Intertextualité et connaissance dans l'œuvre de Stanisław Lem
Intertekstualność a poznanie u Lema Rozpatruję tutaj szczególne formy, jakie przybiera intertekstualność w utworach science fiction, zwłaszcza w prozie Stanisława Lema. Autor SF konstruuje swój tekst w korespondencji nie tylko z tekstami zastanymi w realnym świecie swojej kultury, ale też ze sferą tekstów fikcyjnych, należących do fantastycznej rzeczywistości, w której umieścił fabułę. Istotne dla literatury SF jest więc zderzenie języków tradycy…
Gombrowicz i Szekspir
Kronos and Literature
The publication of Witold Gombrowicz’s Kronos elicited a range of reactions from its readers: from affirmative to aggressive. The aggressive ranged from civil to brutal and rude. Jerzy Franczak (at the civil end of the spectrum) maintains that Kronos does not teach anything, does not aid the reader, and appears totally unnecessary—it does not pass the test of reading as literature.1 At the other end of the spectrum, expressed mainly in Internet f…
Olga Tokarczuk’s Portrait of Jacob Frank against the Backdrop of His Times
In Księgi Jakubowe [The Books of Jacob], a fictionalized account of the eighteenth-century religious leader Jacob Frank and his followers, Olga Tokarczuk crafts a narrative that privileges the diverse and often nonconvergent perspectives of characters caught up in historical events that they do not fully understand. Likewise, in Bieguni [Flights], Tokarczuk allows the diverse narratives making up this “constellation novel” to unfold under the aut…
Kolabo po polsku – wczoraj i dziś
Autor artykułu analizuje różnicę pomiędzy „złytoptakami” a pieszczochami politycznych systemów. Ci pierwsi są często precyzyjnie określeni, wyraźniejsi w swoich poglądach, natomiast ci drudzy – „zamazani”, często terająca dwa fronty, a już szczególnie upodobali sobie figurę Konrada Wallenroda. Takie środowiska najlepiej opisywali Jerzy Andrzejewski czy Leopold Tyrmand, ale ważna była też dyskusja wokół Traktatu o gnidach Piotra Wierzbickiego. Aut…
The Cosmic Signals of Stanisław Lem
Communicating productively with an alien intelligence, whether by traveling through space to another civilization or attempting to understand their messages received here on Earth, is so consistent a commonplace of cosmic science fiction that we might easily regard it as a defining feature of the genre. This essay argues, by contrast, that Stanisław Lem's fiction about space travel aims consistently to demonstrate the impossibility of such commun…
Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Language and Culture (4 works) · Physics (4 works) · Central European Literary Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)