Zamieszkiwać w bezdomności, czyli motyw domu w powieści Olgi Tokarczuk „Dom dzienny, dom nocny”
Living in homelessness: the theme of home in Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “House of Day, House of Night”
Author(s): Viktória VasSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Foreign languages learning, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Olga Tokarczuk; theme of home; archetypes; mythography; otherness; roots
Summary/Abstract: Archetypal figures and themes inspired by myths have been present in Olga Tokarczuk’s prose from the beginning. The paper contains an interpretation of her early novel, House of Day, House of Night, and analyses the central theme of the text, that of home, to show the role of narrative creation in identity development.
Journal: Postscriptum Polonistyczne
- Issue Year: 25/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 55-68
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish