Kudliński and Osterwa. The case of Hamlet Cover Image

Kudliński i Osterwa. Sprawa Hamleta
Kudliński and Osterwa. The case of Hamlet

Author(s): Anna Sobiecka
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Tadeusz Kudliński; Juliusz Osterwa; theatrical novel; cryptobiographic strategy;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to the theatrical novel by Tadeusz Kudliński, Świętokradca (1947), in which a fictional dialogue between the author of the novel and the performance concept of Shakespeare’s Hamlet by Juliusz Osterwa is being held. Analysis of the novel, in which a metatextual frame is included as well, is confronted with earlier considerations of Wanda Świątkowska, who had conducted a close analysis of Juliusz Osterwa’s Hamlet, considering his personal and professional relationship with Tadeusz Kudliński, too. The novel Świętokradca, released in the year of Osterwa’s death, not only provides another interpretation of Hamlet, but also makes an attempt to combine both Kudliński’s and Osterwa’s concepts.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 18
  • Page Range: 139-151
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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