Językowa kreacja osób chorych psychicznie w powieści Wędrówki Oryginała Józefa Korzeniowskiego
Linguistic creation of mentally ill people in the novel Journeys of the original by Józef Korzeniowski

Summary/Abstract: The goal of the article was an attempt to investigate linguistic creation of mentally ill people in J. Korzeniowski’s novel entitled „The journeys of the original”.The material was divided into chapters, which exemplified linguistic means of presenting the issues connected with hereditary factors predisposing people to mental disorders, situation of the patients treated at psychiatric facilities, hospital care, suffering ofthe families whose members fell victim of mental sicknesses and finally a detailed analysis of two cases: recovering Marta and over-sensitive Karol.Lexical, phraseological and stylistic means creating the images of the patients and the illness-related reality included in the novel were analyzed. The research led to the conclusion that Korzeniowski realistically presents the situation of the „insane” and their relatives who perceive the illness as a big or even the biggest misfortune affecting man and his/her surrounding and view the illness itself as a condition of being suspended between life and death – longing for demise which is expected to shorten the suffering.

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