It will show how, by shifting the domain of form from aesthetics and literature to everyday life, Gombrowicz uses it as a method for the composition of works of art that act as singular critical symptomatologies of modernity. It will demonstrate that the work of Gombrowicz and his contemporaries is characterised by a singular and profound engagement with the concept of form, which in the case of Gombrowicz is radically subverted. While the primary focus of the book is on Gombrowicz, it will relate his work to his Polish modernist contemporaries Bruno Schulz and Stanisław Witkiewicz (Witkacy), all of whom shared an interrogation of the concept of form with practices of artistic invention across multiple genres and media. This book examines the writing of the Polish modernist author Witold Gombrowicz, in the contexts of the aesthetic practices that took place in “Independent Poland” (1919-39) and his later experience of post-war exile in Argentina and Western Europe. In Wiśniewski-Snerg’s writing this problem of is, of course, expressed in a metaphorical way. Perhaps it will start to experience them as a kind of unethical oppression. An example of such a dilemma is the issue of the sentient machine’s perception of the tasks imposed on it by the human-constructor. It is also one of the first attempts in Polish literature to address the issue of sentient machines, and is a kind of preview of contemporary dilemmas connected with the work on the creation of artificial intelligence. Such literary reflection is valuable, partly because it enters into an interesting dialogue with the work of Bruno Schulz (1892- 1942), one of the most important Polish writers of the 20th century.

moral dilemmas) in a thinking machine, which is formed in the image and likeness of a human being. In his novel, Wiśniewski-Snerg also dealt with the problem of human feelings (e.g. It is worth remembering, however, that these artistic worlds often serve to test non-literary reality. In this article I would like to follow the ethical consequences of such situations in created literary worlds.

In his novel Robot (1973), he made an attempt at a literary visualization of a machine acquiring human identity. Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg (1937-1995) was a Polish science fiction writer.

Robot by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg