Journal of Education culturE and SociEty 4

Interpretation of Metaphisics – the novel written by Lech Majewski, is the subject matter of theoretical, aesthetic and antropological considerations. Synthesis of arts: literature, film, painting and theatre, which occur in the novel, opens a perspective of intertextuality and provokes questions about ekphrasis, varied materials, ways of experience mediated by dispositives and reflections on humans among other problems. The crucial point in both: Majewski’s novel and this dissertation, is a triptych painted by Hieronymus Bosch – The Garden of Earthly Delight, which gradually annexes the featured world – becomes a basic figure in trying to show, how the aesthetization of reality brings Wolfgang Welsch’s cahegory of an(a)esthetics. Key words: majewski, bosch, metaphisics, ecphrasis, anaesthetics, intertextuality Re-creations and unblazed trails We shall begin with a repetition – if it may be considered as a beginning at all. Repetition of the world as a literature domain becomes nearly identical to a reminiscence. As Kierkegaard wrote in his famous treatise: “Repetition and reminiscence are the same steps, but taken in opposite directions. What we reminisce has already happened, then we repeat ‘from the back’. A proper repetition is a reminiscence directed to the future ” (Kierkegaard 2000, p. 50)12. A large part of literature is created on the basis of these two models13 and that kind of literature is inseparably related to the functions of human memory. The world of literary works is then, based on reminiscences reaching the future – the world of memory forms which significantly complicate the traditional theory of mimesis. In Metaphysics by Lech Majewski the issue is topicalized by formal construction of the text and directly in the process of narration. The first person in the monologue created ‘the 12 If not differently marked, all the quotations are translated by Agnieszka Krywalska. 13 According to the conception formed by, among other authors (Zaleski 2004)