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DOI 10.12887/35-2022-2-138-12



Hanna RATUSZNA, A Possibility of a Different Reality: The Hidden Dimension of Gérard de Nerval’s Poetic World


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Gérard de Nerval is a poet whose work exerted a significant influence on the achievements of Polish modernists. One of the authors who, in creating her fictional world, used a similar narrative method to that applied by Nerval, was Maria Komornicka. What connects the works of the two artists is a melancholic worldview, in which an anamorphic vantage point plays an important role. Characteristic of the 19th-century vision-centeredness, the figure of anamorphosis  makes it possible to investigate numerous philosophical contexts, as well as the problems related to the aesthetics of lack and to the “flickering” of the “I.” In the article, an analysis of the anamorphic images included in Nerval’s poem is complemented by a reflection on Komornicka’s work Biesy. The juxtaposition of the texts so removed in terms of the time of their origin makes it possible to grasp the importance of anamorphic imaging in the process of shaping the 20th-century aesthetic discourse.

Keywords: Gérard de Nerval, Maria Komornicka, anamorphosis, melancholy, El Desdichado, visocentrism, philosophy, literature

Contact: Katedra Edytorstwa i Literatury Polskiej, Instytut Literaturoznawstwa, Wydział Humanistyczny, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
E-mail: Hanna.Ratuszna@umk.pl, alef2@wp.pl 
Phone: +48 56 6113539 
https://www.human.umk.pl/wydzial/pracownicy/?id=6393940
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7544-3581



  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887