Mourning Narratives About Family and Things. Mikołaj Łoziński’s “Książka” and Marcin Wicha’s “Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem” Cover Image

Żałobne narracje o rodzinie i rzeczach. „Książka” Mikołaja Łozińskiego oraz „Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem” Marcina Wichy
Mourning Narratives About Family and Things. Mikołaj Łoziński’s “Książka” and Marcin Wicha’s “Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem”

Author(s): Wiktoria Kulak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: (Auto)biography; mourning; death; orphaned items; biographical memory

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is to examine the human’s attitude towards the other’s death. The field of research was limited to the death testimony of a parent in Polish literature after 1989, based on Mikołaj Łoziński’s Book (2011) and Marcin Wicha’s Things, I didn’t Throw Away (2017). The analysis was focused on the way in which the biographies of the deceased can be created by memories of them in the different phases of grief, and on the creation of intergenerational connections between the orphaned subjects and the material remains corresponding to the life of the dead.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 72-82
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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