STATUS GROBOWCA I STATUS MOGIŁY. PRÓBA NEKROHUMANISTYCZNEJ LEKTURY FRAG- MENTÓW NAD NIEMNEM ELIZY ORZESZKOWEJ
STATUS OF THE TOMB AND STATUS OF THE GRAVE. AN ATTEMPT AT A NECROHUMANIST READING OF FRAGMENTS OF NAD NIEMNEM BY ELIZA ORZESZKOWA

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I attempt a necro-humanistic reading of specific passages from Nad Niem-nem by Eliza Orzeszkowa. These passages describe two burial sites: the tomb of Jan and Cecylia,the founders of the Bohatyrowicz family, and the grave of forty January Uprising insurgents. Nu-merous scholars of Nad Niemnem have attributed symbolic and formative significance to both thetomb of Jan and Cecylia and the grave of the insurgents for the novel’s characters and its readers.Some of these interpretations will be referenced in this article. I do not intend to challenge thembut rather to complement them with a necro-humanistic perspective on the sections dedicated to thegraves, drawing upon Ewa Domańska’s insights from her book Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologiimartwego ciała. I begin by examining the importance of land as a resource for cultivation or animalhusbandry for the inhabitants of Bohatyrowicze and Korczyn. This approach will highlight howOrzeszkowa differentiates between the narrative of the land that serves the living and the narrativeof the land that houses the remains of the dead.

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