Nowe szaty Kaina. Problematyka graniczna jako perspektywa poznawcza w Obcym Alberta Camusa i Kainie. Opowiadaniu egzystencjalnym Bohumila Hrabala

Abstract

Cain’s New Clothes. Border Issues as a Cognitive Perspective in The Stranger by Albert Camus and Cain.

An Existential Story by Bohumil Hrabal The article focuses on the problem of transformation in Camus’s and Hrabal’s versions of the story of Cain, who was – according to the Bible – the first murderer in the human history. This subject is discussed in connection with the concepts of justice and brotherhood. Camus’s and Hrabal’s prose reminds us about the complicated relationship between language, the social world and the individual. Certain general ideas are seen through the prysm of relativity, refl ected in the diversity of contexts and situations. This sheds light on the construction of positive and negative values in the human world.