How I Fell in Love with Justine from On the Banks of the Niemen. Miłosz Reads Orzeszkowa
How I Fell in Love with Justine from On the Banks of the Niemen. Miłosz Reads Orzeszkowa

Summary/Abstract: The article How I Fell in Love with Justine from On the Banks of the Niemen. Miłosz Reads Orzeszkowa is an attempt at an intertextual analysis of the poem Undressing Justine. The text, which comes from the 1994 volume Facing the River attracts attention for two reasons. First, the layout of the work itself is intriguing: apart from the poem itself it includes a prose Complement…, which performs the function of the author’s commentary or footnote. Second, the title itself provokes the reader, offering various associations, of which the primary are erotic. However, intertextual analysis reveals a more serious senseand demonstrates that undressing is merely a pretext for a “philological undressing,” which consists of baring conventions, styles, and traditions of the era.

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