Problem płci w literaturze popularnej okresu międzywojennego: samiec i impotent w prozie Tadeusza Dołęgi-Mostowicza
The Problem of Sex in Inter-War Popular Literature. A Male and an Impotent Man in Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz’s Prose

Summary/Abstract: Receivers as well as protagonists of a marked part of Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz’s works were women; in this way the writer appreciated the women’s role in the process of shaping the mass literary affinities. Not surprising is then the fact that majority of scholars (e.g. Piotr Śliwiński, Józef Rurawski) focus their researches on female literary portraits. The issue of emancipation, being one of the key problem of Dołęga-Mostowicz’s novels, is conductive to it. The method of modelling male character omitted or neglected in philological reading deserves attention as it allows to grasp a full picture of sex and the sexual in the Inter-war popular writing. Resorting to the instruments (mainly Lacanian) of psychoanalysis, the author of the article analyses the figures of Stefan Borowicz, Ewaryst Malinowski, and Marian Dziewanowski, and offers a catalog of males and impotent men from the Inter-war bestsellers.

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