@ARTICLE{Wroniszewski_Maksymilian_Ireneusz_2019, author={Wroniszewski, Maksymilian}, number={No 3 (354)}, journal={Ruch Literacki}, pages={345-362}, howpublished={online}, year={2019}, publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka}, publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki}, abstract={This is an interpretation of Ireneusz Iredyński’s short novel Manipulation in the context of acedia, a state of depressive indolence and spiritual apathy. This psychological condition received its earliest description in the writings of the Desert Fathers (most notably Evagrius Ponticus), Christian hermits who lived in the Egyptian desert in the 3rd-4th Century A.D. The article lists and analyzes some of the acedic symptoms and motifs that recur in the experience of the main character of Manipulation (i.e. temptation by demons, suicidal fantasies, imprisonment in a cell); it also examines the temporal structure of the narration. For intertextual reference the discussion reaches out to the writings of Evagrius Ponticus and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Possessed.}, type={Artykuły / Articles}, title={Ireneusz Iredyński and acedia}, URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/113541/PDF/RL%203-19%207-WRONISZEWSKI.pdf}, doi={10.24425/rl.2019.130048}, keywords={Polish literature of the 20th century, the novella, the outsider in fiction, acedia, demonism, Desert Father, Ireneusz Iredyński (1939-1985)}, }