Literackie figury domu w prozie Danuty Mostwin
Literary figures of the home in Danuta Mostwin’s prose

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to describe the literary figures of the home in Danuta Mostwin’s seven-volume “Polish saga” (Dom starej lady, London 1958, Ameryko! Ameryko!, Warszawa 1981, Cień księdza Piotra, Warszawa 1985, Szmaragdowa zjawa, Warszawa 1988, Tajemnica zwyciężonych, London 1992, Nie ma domu, Lublin 1996, Słyszę, jak śpiewa Ameryka, London 1998). The biography of the author of Dom starej lady matches the biographies of multigenerational Polish families that had endured the partitions of Poland, wars, communism, and exile. This autobiographical feature become the substrate for most of Mostwin’s novels. The deliberations, set in the context of philosophical and axiological as well as literary theory findings show the transformations in the creation of the figure of the home in these prose writings. The evolution of the imagery of the home ranges from an Arcadian home to an “anti-home”, “home as an ark”, and “home regained”. This corresponds to Danuta Mostwin’s philosophical position, as she considered this combination of values brought from her native country and the values acquired in the country where she settled as most optimal form of defending Polish identity in exile.

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