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oflove,whichistosaythediversityoflife.Shewrites:HPolishRomanticism
wasagreatdiscoveryofalterity.”85MariaJanion’sworkisagreatdiscovery
oftheloveoftheOther,ofalterity,andofthealterity-othernessoflove.It
isaworkofhospitALTERITY.Tesearearchivesofideasandbodies,and
thebodiesandideasofarchives.Tearchive;thekhôra-theplacethatis
notaplace;thesymbolic;trace;absence;hospitality-thesearetheideasof
MariaJanion;ofSocratesandPlato;ofDiotima;ofBathsheba;ofDerrida;of
Kristeva.TephilosophyofMariaJanionisthecreativity-creationofarchives
againstevil.Tesearchiveshousesubjectivityfreedfromidentity;thehomely
strangenessattheintersectionofgrandandsmallnarratives;theGothicism
ofthepresentandthepast;thehopeintraditionandpopularculture.
MariaJanionfindstheGothicformtobeareactiontoevil,fromthe
GothicofZygmuntKrasiński.Debiutidojrzałość86totheGothicofWitold
Gombrowicz87andessaysonEdgarAllanPoe,HenryJamesandPaulAus-
ter.88TeGothicformcouldpossiblybeviewedasasteptowardstheopen
form,morecapacious,attheborderlandsbetweenphilosophyandliterature.
MariaJaniondoesnotobserveastrictseparationbetweenphilosophyand
literatureinheressays,veeringneitherintofullfictionmodenorscientific
jargon,givinginneithertoscientismnortothetemptationofwritingliterature.
Suspendedbetweenartandscience,rationalityandirrationality,Maria
Janion’sworkresemblesGothicism,whichfusesmarvelsandcogitations,
investigativereasoningandirrationalintuitions.Gothicismistheabject;
theexcess;theSublime;thecrisis.Nowonder,therefore,thatitiscurrently
makingareturn-or,asMariaJanionwouldhaveit,wearewitnessingnotso
mucharehabilitationorresuscitationofGothicismasitsconstantpresence
inculture.ApermanentpresenceinmodernEuropeanconsciousness,its
inherentandnecessaryconstituent,theGothiccanhardlyberehabilitated
-thisisthefinalsentenceofherbookRomanticism.Revolution.Marxism.89
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MariaJanion,forewordtoInna-Inny-Inne.Oinnościwkulturze,eds.MariaJanion,Kazimiera
Szczuka,ClaudiaSnochowska-Gonzalez(Warszawa:InstytutBadańLiterackichPAN,
2004),9.
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MariaJanion,ZygmuntKrasiński.Debiutidojrzałość(Warszawa:WiedzaPowszechna,1962).
87
MariaJanion,HFormagotyckaGombrowicza”,inMariaJanion,Gorączkaromantyczna(War-
szawa:PIW,1975).
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Essayscollectedin:MariaJanion,Żyjąctracimyżycie.Niepokojącetematyegzystencji(Warszawa:
W.A.B,2001).
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MariaJanion,Romantyzm,rewolucja,marksizm.Colloquiagdańskie(Gdańsk:Wydawnictwo
Morskie,1972).
