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Between event and text. The atopy of Jesus in the light of Cezary Wodziński’s interpretation of Socrates: The tension arising between a text and the event or figure that constitutes its source gives rise to a fundamental hermeneutical problem. Any attempt at inscription proves necessarily inadequate and provisional, insofar as the originary meaning resists full philosophical conceptualization or exhaustive articulation in the language of symbols and images. In this sense, both the text and the figure to which it refers emerge as a hermeneutical ‘non­‐place’ (atopos) — not so much a realm beyond understanding as a liminal site that persistently eludes definitive interpretive grasp. In this article, drawing on the paradigmatic example of an atopic figure — Socrates, as interpreted by Cezary Wodziński — I examine the possibility of applying this category also to the figure of Christ. In the second part of the paper, viewed through the lens of the classical “Socratic question,” I analyse the tension between oral culture and the culture of writing as manifested in the Gospels, understood as a historically concrete articulation of the same hermeneutical conflict between event and its inscription.