Reymontowski gotycyzm nowoczesności w Ziemi obiecanej
Gothic modernity in Władysław St. Reymont’s The Promised Land

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to interpret Władysław St. Reymont’s novel, The Promised Land, through the lens of Gothic tradition, utilizing tropes employed by English writers and theorists in the nineteenth century to depict the social impacts of the industrial revolution. I argue that in his portrayal of industrial Łódź, Reymont created a coherent vision of Gothic modernity, which can be understood through Foucault’s concept of deviant heterotopia, constructed by means of multifacated gothicization of urban space.

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