The Warsaw Uprising - Ours is a life in a world that has run its course.

Tales from the End of History:

 The Warsaw Uprising

by Peter Strzelecki Rieth

It is natural that man experiences night and day, one after the other; quite unnatural if experienced simultaneously. To live like a penumbra is a unique experience and it must be considered the norm for Poles who experience their recent history and present culture in full. So it happens that on 14 September, I had the pleasure of watching an amateur theater spectacle performed in the outdoors of the Ursulian nunnery in Warsaw. On 15 September, I happened upon a collection of short stories, published in 1979, roughly translated as “Which way to the meeting?” (“Gdzie jest droga na walne?“), by Marek Nowakowski. Watching the theater spectacle and then reading the first of the short stories, I was struck by the stark difference between the two Polands they present. The theater spectacle gives us a glimpse of the zenith of European and Christian Poland before its absolute and final demise. The novel casts light on a Bolshevik, lumpen-proletarian Poland that, having passed beyond Stalinism, is a model of the End of History and the phenomenon of existentialist Socialism. To juxtapose the characters in the theater spectacle and the short story is to learn something not only about present day Poland but European civilization as it stands today. It is above all to recognize the post-modern condition as being actually post-apocalyptic.

...............

Read more :www.theimaginativeconservative.org