Zapomnienie jako utrata tożsamości w powieściach „Cień księdza Piotra” oraz „Ja za wodą, ty za wodą” Danuty Mostwin
Oblivion as a Loss of Identity in the Light of Danuta Mostwin’s Novels: “Father Peter’s Shadow” and “You and on the Other Side of the Water”

Summary/Abstract: Danuta Mostwin is known in the academic and literary world for promoting her original concept of third value, i.e. the ideal model of the migrant’s identity. One of the obstacles on the way to reach this equilibrium is the temptation to reject the migrant’s heritage and the original values embraced in one’s homeland, depicted by Mostwin in Father Peter’s Shadow, and to let them fade into oblivion. By creating protagonists who reflect the life stories of her patients, Mostwin warns against this hazard, which in extreme cases leads to complete personality disintegration, depression and other mental illnesses. The author of the article tries to illustrate the consequences arising from the individual’s consent to oblivion, using as an example Mostwin’s characters from the novel You and I on the Other Side of the Water.

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