Między retoryką Erosa a erotyką Tanatosa Czego pragnie bohater Na wzgórzu róż?

Abstrakt

Between rethorics of eros and erotics of Tanatos . What does the main character in Na wzgórzu róż [on the hill of roses] Really want ?

Abstract

The text is an attempt to analyse the story by Stefan Grabiński according to the paradigm of pleasure reading by Barthes and within the category of fantasmatic criticism. According to the author, in this story the pleasure of the reader is designed as parallel to the pleasure of the narrator (the main protagonist), and its first phase is solar ecstasy. Changes in the dynamics of pleasure are brought about by an unidentified smell – interpreted here according to the Lacanian category of Thing, and therefore impossible to integrate into the symbolic system. The answer to the unclearly predicted tanatics of smell is erotica – a fantasmatic object of desire that is interpreted here as projection, or exteriorisation, of the ideal, a being drawn from the protagonist himself. Contact with the Real, with extra-discursive mystery that drives the desire of the main character, is only possible thanks to the wound – a flaw on the face of the heroine, which is not only an epiphany of the Thing, but which also shows the core and the beginning of writing that is – according to Derrida and Markowski – a cut, a slash, a scratch. This experience – going beyond the fantasy towards the Real, confrontation with the primal cause of fantasy – is the source of the perverse pleasure of the protagonist and the reader, who come closer towards the mystery of the structure of their desire. Waking up from a dream is not interpreted here as a soothing return to reality but as the continuation of the search for the truth about own desire that began during the dream and that is diagnosed as erotica of death.