W LESIE "KRÓLA OLCH": SCHULZ – LIPSKI – TOURNIER
IN THE FOREST OF THE "ERLKÖNIG": SCHULZ, LIPSKI, TOURNIER

Author(s): Piotr Łuszczykiewicz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: German ballad; ekphrasis; intertextuality; transgression
Summary/Abstract: The sketch is dedicated to prose references to "Erlkönig", a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang Goethe. The author compares its evocations in the works of Bruno Schulz, Leo Lipski, Stefan Zweig and Michael Tournier. They are a kind of ekphrases: the poet’s text is not quoted directly, but appears to be a reminiscence of a reading, recitation, lecture or a literary image. A special place among them is occupied by a fragment of Lipski’s short story from "Niespokojni", in which the performance of Goethe’s ballad by a teenage character triggers a multifaceted transgression: erotic, mental, linguistic.

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