Z dziejów postaci Kaina, Barabasza i Judasza w literaturze

Abstract

Author’s primary intention is to show a layer of coexistence of three biblical villains: Kain, Barabash and Judash. Characteristic for F. Nietsche’s philosophy formula of ‘death of God’ became a space that joins these three figures. Showing in synthetic and shortened way a literary evolution of Kain, Barabash and Judash, author revealed, characteristic for all of them, stages of this process (they didn’t proceed evenly and with the same intensity). First stage portrays them according to biblical interpretation; second stage is a kind of a discussion with tradition and attempt at changing it’s value; stage three is an adoption of a new interpretation. The last level is especially characteristic for XXth century, where biblical villains became figures of evil and cogito of nihilism. W hat makes them different from original context is that they don’t become reason of evil but their victim.