Paweł Huelle - czytany z Walterem Benjaminem

• DOI: 10.18318/pl.2021.1.7
• Publication Date: 2021-12-08T17:55:12Z
• Authors: Marion Brandt

The author interprets the novel Weiser Dawidek (Who Was David Weiser?) by Paweł Huelle against the background of Walter Benjamin’s historiosophical theses. She points out the similarities between Benjamin’s thought of the time stopped at the moment when the Messiah appeared and Huelle’s novel. The encounter between the narrator and Weiser occurs when the regular flow of time is interrupted, and Weiser himself can be interpreted as the incarnation of the suppressed past and its “secret index by which it is referred to redemption” (Benjamin). In the further part of the article the author compares the novel Weiser Dawidek (Who Was David Weiser?) with other Huelle’s texts the action of which follows a similar pattern.