Kilka uwag na marginesie powieści kryminalnych Walerego Przyborowskiego
A few comments on Walery Przyborowski’s crime novels
Author(s): Maria Berkan-JabłońskaSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: 19th century crime novel; Walery Przyborowski; William Wilkie Collins; literary imitation / adaptation
Summary/Abstract: This article addresses the question of Walery Przyborowski’s pioneering status in the Polish crime prose of the 19th century. On the basis of a comparison between Przyborowski’s novels such as The Acacia Leaf and The Black Hour and The Dead Secret and The Lady and the Law by William Wilkie Collins, the issue of originality of Przyborowski’s crime prose is analyzed. The thesis about his being the precursor of Polish criminal literature remains valid, but the judgments about the innovativeness and authenticity of his crime stories need to be revised. The main goal of this article, however, is to emphasize the need for integrated studies within Polish philology and other philologies in order to capture the interdependencies within the popular nineteenth-century European literature.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
- Issue Year: 50/2018
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 63-88
- Page Count: 26
- Language: Polish