Georgiego Gospodinowa zmagania z kategorią czasu w dobie kryzysu

The article is devoted to a reflection on the category of time in Georgi Gospodinov’s novel Vremeubežiŝte (2020), where author undertakes processes culpable and non-culpable self-destruction societies that have rejected rules Enlightenment rationalism. Using tools dystopia, he creates world gripped by collective madness, sources which derives from extra-literary reality links contemporary political cultural processes. Leszek Kolakowski’s concept as vault human home, based four pillars: reason, God, love, death, remains philosophical point reference for my deliberations. In turn, retroutopia sociologist culture Zygmunt Bauman provided me with reflect new type rationalism after conservative turn. René Girard’s mimetic competition was helpful considering structure presented novel.