Onomastykon wybranych poznańskich powieści kryminalnych (urbanonimy i antroponimy)
Onomastics in selected detective stories about Poznań (urbanonyms)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present Poznań's space in contemporary crime, with particular emphasis on the literary onomastics (urbanonyms and proper names) and show how names can influence the image of the city and its inhabitants. I have analyzed five detective stories which were written by four different authors. Literary city and the real one bear a lot of resemblance, but they are not the same. Urbanonyms and proper names used in novels usually perform different functions than just the location in space. The authors portray the city as a bustling, sometimes city is as important as the literary heroes (in Ryszard Ćwirlej's books), and sometimes it is just the background of the events (in the novels written by other authors). Literary Poznań also distinguishes a number of characteristic names, repeated in novels, which distinguish the city against the others.

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