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O residuach struktur mitycznych w Niecierpliwych Nałkowskiej
Residual Mythical Structures in Nałkowska’s Niecierpliwi [The Impatient Ones]
Author(s): Grażyna BorkowskaSubject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: novel; myth; 20th century; structure; anthropology; animality
Summary/Abstract: This article tackles two problems: the transgression of the divide between human and animal in Zofia Nałkowska’s novel Niecierpliwi [The Impatient Ones], and the fact that her characters carry uncommon, noble, almost ceremonial names. According to anthropologists and semioticians, but also according to Freud, both questions are linked to the residual mythical structure that dwells in some representatives of contemporary prose. Nałkowska’s case supports this notion. Bruno Schulz already remarked on this characteristic in his ingenious review of the novel in 1939.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 31-46
- Page Count: 16
- Language: Polish
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