Sposoby oswajania rzeczywistości w powieściowym cyklu fantasy Jarosława Grzędowicza
Familiarising the Reality in Jarosław Grzędowicz’s Fantasy Cycle

Author(s): Karolina Kowalczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to familiarisation of the reality depicted in Jarosław Grzędowicz’s novel, entitled Pan Lodowego Ogrodu (The Lord of the Ice Garden). Particularly, it covers the means of dealing with the unknown, basing on the example of the protagonist of this cycle – Vuko Drakkainen. The first problem tackled in this paper is the way in which the aforementioned hero and narrator describes the world; precisely, it includesthe attempts to make the new and hostile reality familiar, and the consequences of such an act. The second issue is a change in the viewpoint of the protagonist throughout the saga, and its influence on his ways of defining the surrounding world. Hence, it becomes possible to track how an unaware and hostile coloniser turns into a nearly fully assimilated member of the community, which previously has been unknown to him.

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