A Slice of “Fedora” Chocolate Torte: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Male-Centred Imagination Cover Image
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Kawałek tortu „Fedora”. Męskocentryczna wyobraźnia Jerzego Andrzejewskiego. Rekonesans badawczy
A Slice of “Fedora” Chocolate Torte: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Male-Centred Imagination

Author(s): Wojciech Śmieja
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: masculinity; homosexuality; Oedipus complex; Gothicism

Summary/Abstract: In this article Śmieja suggests that Jerzy Andrzejewski’s male-centred imagination is rooted in the writer’s homoerotic desire. By imagining relationships between men that take place outside of the Oedipal model, Andrzejewski’s works threaten both the social order and the coherence of the subject himself. In order to stabilize his male-centred vision on a textual level, Śmieja argues, Andrzejewski draws on the model developed by Witold Gombrowicz, while on a biographical level it is Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński who fulfils this stabilizing function.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 120-141
  • Page Count: 22