Nie-ludzkie wyzwanie wirusa. Uwagi na marginesie niefikcjonalnej literatury pandemicznej

Abstrakt

The aim of this article is to present artistic strategies of mediation between non-human nature of SARS-CoV-2 and non-fictional literature, whose authors use narrative structures to express experience of struggling with virus as alienated form of existence. Author of the article describes books written by practicing doctors - Rachel Clarks (Breathtaking. Inside the NHS in a time of pandemic) and Tomasz Rezydent (Invisible Front. Doctor’s Notes from the First Line of Battle with Coronavirus, Fear and Pandemic) using perspective of narrative medicine, which problematizes the ways of communicating illness and suffering. One of the crucial thesis of article considers coronavirus pandemic as important factor in cultural history of breathing, which is transforming from spiritual to post-human interpretation of phenomenon of breath.