Homogotycki skandal według Michała Choromańskiego
Homogotic scandal according to Michał Choromański

Summary/Abstract: The article introduces the category of "gaygothic" or "queer gothic" hitherto unknown in Poland and indicates its anticipations in Maria Janiońs work. The text focuses on interpreting the episodic novel »Skandal w Wesołych Bagniskach« [Scandal in Merry Swamps] by Michał Choromański, published in book form several decades after its original release in newspapers. One hypothesis suggests that this novel could inspire Witold Gombrowicz to write "The Possessed". Choromahski's novel is read as a pastiche of Gothic novels and at the same time contemporary accumulation of cultural tropes of homosexuality (allusions to works by Iwaszkiewicz, Witkiewicz, Czechowicz or Sobański).

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