Odmładzające działanie wspomnień w powieści Sońka Ignacego Karpowicza
Rejuvenating effect memories in the novel Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the value of memories which have a therapeutic and rejuvenating character. Memory, which is the ability of remembering, storing and recollecting past events is the process accompanying humans throughout all their lives and thus influencing their personality and character. Extracting memories from the past has its own meaning and purpose evoked in the desire for catharsis. The title character of Sońka by Ignacy Karpowicz recollects the memories of the tragic experience of the Second World War and through the confession in front of a stranger she becomes free from the ballast of her life and dies rejuvenated and liberated. Karpowicz created the “salvaging” novel, which falls into the contemporary trend of literature that works with memories from the war times presented in more human dimension.

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