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Endure. Correspondence from the island of Tyflonia, Place of Internment For those Afflicted by The Loss
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Theodosia
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-10T13:39:02Z
dc.date.available2025-03-10T13:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.isbn978-83-268-3411-0
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/196669en
dc.descriptionThe island of Tyflonia (from the Greek tyflos, meaning “blind”) is a place of internment for The Lost. Who are they? People who experience vision loss — slow, progressive, inevitable. The cause of vision damage is mysterious. The island has no hospital or sanatorium, only barracks for the dying. Tyflonia is a penal colony. The Lost are supposed to be there. Forever. What do these people do, how do they respond, what do they occupy themselves with? After the initial shock of isolation, being thrown out of the “normal world,” they try to live. And this is what is fascinating in this magical story; how people in the abnormal conditions of forced isolation, limited by poor vision or blindness, how they try to create an almost normal world for themselves. Some seek salvation in friendship, love, and helping others. They arrange a home, make love, have children, help and support others (or not). Some do not succeed. And yet the point is to persevere, to endure, and endure. Original manuscript (in Polish) is located at POLONA, the National Library of Poland, the National Repository of Manuscripts: https://katalogi.bn.org.pl/permalink/48OMNIS_NLOP/1aot9i7/alma991021421809705066en_US
dc.description.abstractWritten by Halina Bortnowska. Translated by Theodosia Robertson. A philosophical tale about characters afflicted by a mysterious blindness (called “The Loss”). Exiled to a remote northern island, some of the exiles form a community to help one another; most, however, give up and slowly die. After a wave of religious fervor, the community recommits to survival, striving moment by moment — to endure.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAgora Publishersen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectEndureen_US
dc.subjectHalina Bortnowskaen_US
dc.subjectsearch for the meaning of lifeen_US
dc.subjectepistolary novelen_US
dc.subjectnovel in lettersen_US
dc.subjectPolish literatureen_US
dc.subjectinterpersonal relationsen_US
dc.subjectfeelingen_US
dc.subjectexclusionen_US
dc.subjectsocial exclusionen_US
dc.subjectisolationen_US
dc.subjectislanden_US
dc.subjectmonasteryen_US
dc.subjectmonastic lifeen_US
dc.subjectallegoryen_US
dc.subjectphilosophical taleen_US
dc.subjectphilosophical fictionen_US
dc.subjectfiction
dc.subjectdestiny
dc.titleEndure. Correspondence from the island of Tyflonia, Place of Internment For those Afflicted by The Lossen_US
dc.title.alternativeEndure : korespondencja z wyspy Tyflonii, miejsca internowania dotkniętych Utratąen_US
dc.title.alternativeWytrwaj. Znieś. Przetrzymajen_US
dc.typeOtheren_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhilosophy
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanities
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumPhilosophy, Department ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumHistory, Department ofen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampusFlinten_US
dc.identifier.oclc899883169
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/196669/1/ENDURE_w_ToC.pdf
dc.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.7302/25265
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0009-0000-8521-5817en_US
dc.description.filedescriptionDescription of ENDURE_w_ToC.pdf : Translation
dc.description.depositorSELFen_US
dc.identifier.name-orcidRobertson, Theodosia; 0009-0000-8521-5817en_US
dc.working.doi10.7302/25265en_US
dc.owningcollnameArts, Sciences & Education, College of (UM-Flint)


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