Kilka uwag na temat wiary w prozie Michała Głowińskiego

Abstract

When analyzing questions of faith in Michał Głowiński's prose, the author uses definitions conceived for the needs of the text. He therefore states that faith is based on attitudes founded on certain assumptions and suppositions, which makes it seem to outsiders to be completely irrational. Pilichiewicz distinguishes, thus, two basic attitudes: the first concerns religious belief, while the second refers to the secular faith, i.e., science, ideas, and ideology. The author places the writer and the scientist in both of these circles, as evidenced by his novel Kręgi obcości (Circles of Strangeness). The text reveals further levels of Głowiński's existential alienation, for which the foundation is his Jewish origin. It also determines the writer's approach to spirituality, which resembles a colorful mosaic of mutually contradictory meanings, i.e., a zealous prayer and secular openness to the world; delight over a prayer gesture and the sphere of ritual and the silent despair of the witness of the Holocaust.