Frustracje Julii Chomińskiej. Dylogia ("W Siec", "Ostatnie spotkanie") Jana Augusta Kisielewskiego lekturą queerową?
The frustrations of Julia Chomińska. Is Jan-August Kisielewski’s novel-diptych ("W sieci", "Ostatnie spotkanie") a queer reading-matter?

Summary/Abstract: Traditionally comprehended as an anti-philistine work, the novel-diptych by J.-A. Kisielewski has gained another, deeper dimension through its apparent homoerotic aspects, indicated owing to queer instruments used. Julia Chomińska, the main female character, is not merely a young Krakow-based painter rebelling against a bourgeois propriety: she appears to be a miserable woman, gaoled in her Otherness (body and desires). Julia tries to understand her situation (e.g. through self-identification with works of art) but, as she finds it impossible to find a way out, eventually falls victim not only to social intolerance and ignorance but, in the first place, to a fear of recognising her own authentic identity.

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