Published : 2020-09-08

Moments of Paresis: On the Representations of Border Experiences in the Egodocuments of Jan Szczepański, Jan Wantuła and Józef Pilch

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This article intends to display how ‘moments of paresis’ and painful border experiences are represented in the egodocuments of sociologist Jan Szczepański as well as the booklovers and self-taught historians Jan Wantuła and Józef Pilch. The writers were related to one another by peasant and evangelical origin from Ustroń in Cieszyn Silesia. The article’s author considers how disease, fear, evanescence, death, loss and disappointment are manifested in their diaries, memoirs and correspondence. It turns out that the protagonists keep their composure, rationalise their own suffering, and stress their individual obligations to fight evil and to not become careless with time. In the narratives, this translates into restraint, the concealing of existential cracks, a lack of extremeness and textual deformations. The article proves that such an attitude is influenced by the Protestant relation to the word, time and duty. Szczepański, Pilch and Wantuła’s texts show how they developed harmony in relation to a sense of responsibility for logos.

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Jan Szczepański, Jan Wantuła, Józef Pilch, autobiographism, concealments, suffering



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Szkaradnik, K. (2020). Moments of Paresis: On the Representations of Border Experiences in the Egodocuments of Jan Szczepański, Jan Wantuła and Józef Pilch. Biografistyka Pedagogiczna, 5(1), 197–216. https://doi.org/10.36578/BP.2020.05.08

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"Biografistyka Pedagogiczna" received funding for the years 2022-2024 from the funds of the Minister of Education and Science under the programme „Rozwój Czasopism Naukowych”.

Project duration: 2023-2024.

The amount of co-financing is 65 992,00 PLN

Contract number: RCN/SP/0434/2021/1