Rozmowa, autobiografia i sztuka życia (Michała Głowińskiego)

The reviewer discusses the book “Czas nieprzewidziany. Długa rozprawa bez pana, wójta i plebana” („Unpredictable Time. A Long Conversation without a Squire, a Bailiff and a Parson”) on a few planes. The scholar points out that Głowiński and Wołowiec’s volume may be seen as a peculiar guidebook to the art of life which tells, for example, how literature helps habituate the drama of existence (after the Shoah). Nevertheless, the book in question is also an example of interlocutory literature since it reveals the past as a result of the interlocutors’ cooperation. Ultimately, it is an unusual (vide “spoken”) autobiography. A prominent place in the book is occupied by an attempt to put an order and to hierarchise Głowiński’s scholarly achievements.