The Immortal Faust
Teresa Rutkowska
tz.rutkowska@gmail.comInstitute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-9206
Abstract
The author places Aleksander Jackiewicz’s text from 1953 in the context of historical and cultural events that took place then, including the death of Joseph Stalin. Against this background, Jackiewicz’s essay was an expression of an escape from the political pressure of the socialist realist doctrine that dominated art (including film) at that time, towards a fascinating archetype of European culture. He focused primarily on René Clair’s film Beauty and the Devil (La beauté du diable, 1950). The author confronts Jackiewicz’s theses with the point of view of literary scholar Stefania Skwarczyńska. Then she reflects on the durability of the Faust myth and its contemporary reincarnations in film and the cultural transformations of its meaning. (Non-reviewed material).
Keywords:
Faust, René Clair, archetype, film toldReferences
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Teresa Rutkowskatz.rutkowska@gmail.com
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2888-9206
Former editor-in-chief of Kwartalnik Filmowy, translator, now retired. She publishes book reviews in the monthly magazine Nowe Książki. Her areas of interest include film narration and the relationship between image and word in film.
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