Stefan Grabiński’s Fantasies of the Future

Abstract

The article Stefan Grabiński’s Fantasies of the Futureaims to demonstrate the complexity of the futuristic vision of the writer. Thoughts of the author of Dziwna stacja based on profound philosophical and religious foundations, are an aftermath of the most importantconsiderations and trends of the modernist era. On the one hand the influence of Henry Bergson’s philosophy, through which the writer saw the world as a dynamic process, “a continued gush of novelty” and remaining in line with this vision the elements of Eastern philosophy – the phenomena of metempsychosis and “wandering souls”, and on the other hand – personal, effectively blocked by Grabiński’s disease, desires to overcome the limits of space, of asense of freedom and unlimited freedom, clearly intermingle with each other in the analyzed works by Grabiński. The writer constructs his “fantasies of the future” in a manner characteristic of his writings – as unfinished, indeterminate and opening a space for the readers activity.