Dialektyka wróg–rodzina. O Sąsiadach Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego i Marii Sadowskiej
The enemy–family dialectic. On the works entitled Neighbours by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Maria Sadowska

Summary/Abstract: Maria Sadowska’s novel Sąsiedzi [The Neighbours] (1874) and J. I. Kraszewski’s Są-siedzi (1878) take up the same theme. They describe the disputes between the neighbours– that is, the gentry. The boundaries of the landed estates generated severetensions. ‘Neighbour’ was equivalent of ‘enemy’. The neighbours hated each other,unlike their children who loved each other. The young generation turned the enemiesinto family, which promised well. Such situations are a metonymy of Poland’spolitical situation. In their novels the writers create the programme of solidarity asa basis for the nation’s existence.

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