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„Ten krzyż reprezentuje nas wszystkich”. Wolność i solidarność według Natalii Ginzburg
Lange-Henszke, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Pallottinum, 2021)
In 1988, in the pages of the left-wing daily „L’Unità”, the writer Natalia Ginzburg, an atheist of Jewish origin, involved on the side of the Italian left, speaks in defense of the presence of the crosses in classrooms. In an essay entitled Non togliete questa croce: è il segno del dolore umano, she refers to the supra-religious and supra-ideological meaning of this symbol. It reminds that it is the Christian revolution that humanity owes to the ideas of equality and solidarity, previously absent. Ginzburg recalls a catalog of values, such as tolerance and generosity, which consists in leaving another human being freedom in searching for answers to fundamental questions. What were the reasons why the writer decided to intervene in the matter of the cross? How does the defense of the Christian symbol in public space fit in with the intellectual project that she has been consistently developing since her literary debut? The article aims at answering these two fundamental questions. Moreover, it offers a Polish translation of one of the famous texts by Ginzburg, whose excellent essays remain practically unknown in Poland.