(Nie)dopowiedziana „przejrzystość szkła” : O miniaturach prozatorskich Anny Frajlich .......... 97
Synopsis
THE (UN)EXPRESSED “TRANSPARENCY OF GLASS”: ABOUT ANNA FRAJLICH’S PROSE MINIATURES
The author of the sketch interprets Anna Frajlich’s “The Laboratory” as a kind of palimpsest, which allows her (i.e. the very author of the notes) once again to raise questions about the meaning of existence, to test her limits, to be reconciled with her past, soothe her frustrations, and in this way to understand herself and the surrounding reality in more depth. Frajlich’s focus on the minutiae of everyday life reads as a distraction from the Holocaust. Time appears here as an enemy, not only teaching us humility, detachment and patience, but also taking from us what we care about, verifying our plans and expectations. “The Laboratory” appears to be a metaphor for human life, which avoids the perception of human fate only in terms of numbers and generalizing clichés and offers an opportunity to diagnose one’s own concerns, among which (as in the case of the narrator of Anna Frajlich’s prose miniatures) is overpowering fear, which is a consequence of a life of a traveller, a life in a hurry.
