Zmagania z mitem. Dorastanie i śmierć w literackiej relacji Linn Ullmann
Coping with the myth – growing up and death in Linn Ullmann’s novel Unquiet

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this text is to analyze Linn Ullmann’s novel Unquiet (published in 2015) as a literary account of a family history and death of the author’s father, Ingmar Bergman. The article con- centrates on how Ullmann, through different formal strategies, manages to tell a very intimate story without reducing it to tabloid-like coverage. First, the article briefly discusses autobiog- raphism, biographism, autofiction and performative biographism as dominating tendencies in Norwegian literature in the 2010’s, placing Ullmann’s novel in this context. Secondly, theoretical perspectives which might be employed in the process of analyzing Unquiet are defined. Lastly, the novel’s form is analyzed with regard to this particular approach. The article’s aim is to pre- sent Linn Ullmann’s Unquiet as a novel hybrid in its form, and thus, an one-of-a-kind phenom- enon in modern Norwegian literature.

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