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DOI 10.12887/36-2023-2-142-11



Roman BOBRYK, Life is Ruled by Chance: An Attempt at Reading Zuzanna Ginczanka’s Przypadek [Chance]


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The article is an attempt to propose a reading of the poem Przypadek [Chance] by Zuzanna Ginczanka. The piece was written in early 1934 by, at the time, a seventeen-year-old poet. The poem can be read as an instance of philosophical reflection on chance in human life. The fate of both protagonists is indeed determined by sheer chance, i.e., the respective place and time of their birth (one of the girls was born in a rich family, while the other in a poor one). The article focuses on the way the presented world is constructed. The basic compositional principle of the poem is symmetry—each quality of either character, or an event in her life, has its equivalent (an opposite) in the description of the other. The poem can serve as an ultimate proof of the author’s maturity of judgment, her thoroughness of observation and social sensitivity, as well as her poetic skills.


Keywords: Zuzanna Ginczanka, chance, 20th-century Polish poetry, poetics


Contact: Instytut Językoznawstwa i Literaturoznawstwa, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych, Uniwersytet w Siedlcach, ul. Żytnia 39, pok. 339, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland
E-mail: roman.bobryk@uph.edu.pl
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  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