Organiczna całość w "Brzezinie". Ekokrytyczna reinterpretacja opowiadania Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza
The organic whole in “Brzezina” [The Birch wood]. An ecocritical reinterpretation of the story by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Summary/Abstract: The article is a proposal to read Iwaszkiewicz’s well-known prose using an ecocritical attitude. This proposal allows the main character of the text to be considered not as people and their fate, but rather as the forest in which the action of the story takes place. The author proposes the separation several modes of constructing the narrative about the forest in the narrative: economic, medical, symbolic, and aesthetic, each of which assumes a human attempt to control the vegetable element through the language. Experience of absence, expressed by the dying Stanisław, seems to be the answer to searching for a new language, with the help of which it would be possible to include man in an organic whole.

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