Nie do przebycia? O granicach i ich przekraczaniu w powieści "Tunel" Magdaleny Parys
Impassable? On Borders and Transgressing Them
in the Novel Tunel by Magdalena Parys
Author(s): Dorota Masiakowska-OssesSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: border motif; transgression; Tunel by Magdalena Parys; German-German border; history of Germany
Summary/Abstract: This article is an analysis of Tunel (The Tunnel), the novel by Magdalena Parys, a Polish author living in Germany. The action of the book focuses on the fictional construction of an escape tunnel built under the border wall between the western and eastern part of Berlin in the early 1980s. This, somehow, predestines Parys’s work to be read in the context of transgression, and crossing limitations. Starting with the writer’snon-literary inspirations, the article shows the multiplicity of literal and metaphorical meanings of the term “border” and examines how the motif functions in the presented world.
Journal: Acta Neophilologica
- Issue Year: 2/2021
- Issue No: XXIII
- Page Range: 229-240
- Page Count: 12
- Language: Polish