Narcyz w masce tragicznej. Sobowtór jako eksterioryzacja duszy w opowiadaniu Leo Belmonta „Tamten człowiek”
Narcissus in a Tragic Masque: a Double as an Exteriorization of the Soul in Leo Belmont’s Story “Tamten Człowiek” (“That Man”)

Summary/Abstract: In his story “Tamten człowiek” (“That Man”), Leo Belmont explores a popular in the romanticism and modernism theme of a double manifested in physical pathologies. A hero, suffering from a paranoid disorder, thinks that his own reflection in a well is his spiritual counterpart – a double – imprisoned there and suffering due to his personality split into the spiritual and the physical. The well is an exemplification of the soul hero of the hero, who – like Narcissus contemplating his reflection – turns to melancholia and self-admiration, and experiences innermost emotions mixed with a feeling of impossibility to comprehend the mystery of the double existence. Induced by hallucinations, he builds an odd and profound theory of the word’s common doubleness which, in spite of its author’s physical abnormalities, takes a shape of a manifested philosophical tractatus.

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