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Letter from Wacław Borowy written 30.03.1939

Author Wacław Borowy
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Ingarden Family archives
Date of creation 30.03.1939
Reference code in archive ARI
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter academic issues
Field aesthetics, literary criticism, literature, philosophy
Tags #analysis of image, #arguments about literature, #article about Ingarden, #Borowy about Ingarden, #cantata of Bach, #general art, #Johann Sebastian Bach, #judgment issue, #literature, #logical sentences, #Manfred Kridl, #margin notes, #parliament sermons, #racing thoughts, #Reginald Howard Wilenski, #religious art, #Rouen Cathedral, #simplifications, #system of Kridl, #The Modern Movement in Art, #truth without quotation marks, #Wacław Borowy, #work of art

n           P.S. 3/30/1939. And the holidays flew by without me sending this letter. I will then use it to adress on one of your comments on the margin. You accuse me of a thought leap in the fact that – in longer arguments about literature – I say about general art that there is a place in it for truth without quotation marks. I understood that since literature is part of art, saying that would not be too much of a transgression. I do not think there would be any search for logical sentences in any other branch of art, so there is no fear of misunderstandings. The issue of the Rouen cathedral or Bach cantatas in the perspective of Kridl’s system does not exist as a subject of judgment, but as a matter of relations to practical areas of life. That is why I spoke about this relation. Kridl, if he is consistent, should not recognize the cathedral in Rouen as a work of art, just as he does not recognize Sejm sermons etc. The cathedral is built to make it easier for people to pray! Something similar can be said about Bach’s Passion. There is, in fact, a book (R.H. Wilemski’s ‘The Modern Movement in Art’) which eliminates all religious art from theoretical considerations, understanding that an image cannot be analyzed as a regular one if its chief destiny is to hang in a church. My task was to deal with these types of simplisms; which is why I also took it on with my rudimentary equipment.