“God has Kindly Given Him Insanity…”. The Artist’s Melancholy, Depression and the State of Being Rejected. A Case Study of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Historia kołka w płocie
“God has Kindly Given Him Insanity…”. The Artist’s Melancholy, Depression and the State of Being Rejected. A Case Study of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Historia kołka w płocie

Summary/Abstract: Ryszard Koziołek, quoted at the beginning, calls Kraszewski “The Writing Machine”. The essayist stresses that “(...) in the school history of literature between Polish Romanticism and realism, i.e. between poetry and the novel, there is a fifty-year gap of nothing worth reading. However, there is something there - a writer who described the everyday Polish life of this half-century in its district and emigration diversity". We owe a lot to Kraszewski as a writer. It is not only about the variety of the works he published, but also about the fact that he gave the Poles “a novel as a form of self-representation and self-understanding”. He relief polish people from not reading in native language. Referring to the judgments quoted in the introduction, it is also worth mentioning that “Kraszewski is a proof that there is a drive that has not yet been discovered by psychoanalysts – the drive to narration”.

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