Niesamowity dwór by Zbigniew Nienacki - between a riddle and a mystery Cover Image

"Niesamowity dwór" Zbigniewa Nienackiego - między zagadką a tajemnicą
Niesamowity dwór by Zbigniew Nienacki - between a riddle and a mystery

Author(s): Beata Mytych-Forajter
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: riddle; mystery; uncanny; freemasonry;

Summary/Abstract: The article by Beata Mytych-Forajter Niesamowity dwór by Zbigniew Nienacki – between a riddle and a mystery, is a proposal for reading one of the novels from the series about Pan Samochodzik (Mr. Automobile). The subject of interest became the unsolvable dilemma between the construction of a detective novel, operating a convention consisting of clues, riddles, false and true clues, and higher-order mysteries, such as the afterlife, the possibility of contact with the dead, the spiritual dimension of the world. As a result of the analysis, it turns out that Nienacki’s novel, despite its strong connection with the convention of detective fiction, also leaves the reader with a considerable amount of unsolvable mystery situated close to the psychoanalytic way of thinking about the human psyche.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 273-285
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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