Marsz nierówności. Antysemici, homoseksualiści i literatura

Abstract

To a large extent, the European mode of thinking has been determined by World War II – the time of extermination of Jews and homosexuals. As a result, in our everyday thinking we rarely accept that these two groups were divided rather than united. Few of us ponder over the fact that writers such as Marcel Proust or Thomas S. Eliot were Jewish and homosexual at the same time. It seems unacceptable for contemporary writers to share a very conservative standpoint and simultaneously have a negative attitude towards the Jewish Diaspora. The relatively unknown in Poland, over sixty-year-old French writer Renaud Camus can serve as an example. Life is full of paradoxes. In the last phase of his life, the moralist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn blamed Jews for the majority of misfortunes in Russia; when Vladimir Nabokov, the author of the famous ‘Lolita’ heard an anti-Semitic joke, he would immediately leave the party he was attending. The article: ‘Inequality march. Anti-Semites, homosexuals and literature’ attempts to show that stereotypes await us in the most unexpected places.