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My Avatar Screams Like Me. Doppelgängers in Selected Polish Science Fiction Narratives

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to investigate selected instances of the doppelgänger literary motif and to present how that centuries-old figure actualizes itself in the literature of the second half of the 20th century. The text explores the following questions: how is the relationship between these characters and traditional doppelgängers used to show the subject’s disintegration and sense of danger? Is the change that occurred within the doppelgänger figure only a superficial modernization of an obsolete trope or rather a profound evolution of the meaning it conveys? My research focuses on three Polish science-fiction narratives, written in different times and within different paradigms: “Holoman” by Janusz Szablicki, “Skasować drugie ja” by Adam Hollanek and “#Eudajmonia” by Magdalena Kucenty.

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