Biografilia: przypadek Petera Ackroyda
Biographilia: The Case of Peter Ackroyd

Summary/Abstract: In this article on the British writer and critic Peter Ackroyd Kraskowska focuses on the biographical narratives that pervade his work: narratives of the lives of London-based writers and artist (e.g. Dickens, Blake, T.S. Eliot), novels built on biographical details, and “biographies” (Ackroyd’s term) of cities such as London or Venice. Borrowing Cory Kaplan’s notion of “biographilia,” which refers to the current revival of biographical narratives that hark back to nineteenth-century models of the genre, Kraskowska also contextualises Ackroyd’s work with the British tradition of life writing, postmodern aesthetics, the neo- Victorian novel fiction as well as Tomasz Niedokos’s concept of English Catholic literature.

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