Zamknięty pokój chorego – więzienie ciała, autarkia duszy. O literackiej gruźliczej melancholii
The closed room of the sick – prison of the body, autarky of the soul. On literary tubercular melancholia

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the motif of melancholia as an element inherent in the lives of Young Poland’s literary characters struggling with tuberculosis. The subject of the study is the relation between limitations of the body and rapid spiritual development. Invariability of the environment, isolation and observation of the physical condition of a human being, perceived through the prism of maladic discourse, were considered in the study as the source of deep melancholic self-reflection and reflections on the changing world from which the patient is excluded.

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