Pisarstwo amalgamatyczne – sposób na przepracowanie traumy? „Droga przez Flandrię” Claude’a Simona i „Czarny potok” Leopolda Buczkowskiego
Conceptual Blending in Literature – a Way to Cope with Trauma? „La Route des Flandres” by Claude Simon and „Czarny potok” by Leopold Buczkowski

Summary/Abstract: The article considers conceptual blending as a method for coping with trauma in literature. An examination of two novels: La Route des Flandres by Claude Simon and Czarny potok by Leopold Buczkowski was conducted by using the theory of blending mental spaces proposed by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner. The article intends to show the connections between conceptual blending as a form of creativity and transposing the experiences of trauma and melancholy into narration. The author assumed that blending mental spaces, which in literature often reveals itself in chaos, the absence of linearity, deformations, and ambiguity, is an adequate and realistic form for expressing emotions associated with experiencing war. It could become a remedy for the “malady of the soul” and a type of therapy; furthermore, it creates new challenges for the reader by urging him to join the process of creating sense in a novel by supplementing it with his frame of reference.

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