Osobliwe warianty realności w utworach fantastycznych Jeleny Dołgopiat i Anny Starobiniec
Peculiar Variants of Reality in Jelena Dołgopiat’s and Anna Starobiniec’s Fantasy Works

Author(s): Urszula Trojanowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to compare the means of creation of fantastic worlds in the works by Jelena Dołgopiat and Anna Starobiniec. Both writers are apparently characterized by similar perceptions of the problems of a contemporary human being, which can be seen in analogical spatial‑temporal constructions of their pieces.The starting point for both Dołgopiat and Starobiniec is the reality familiar to the reader, in which, however, a certain extraordinary displacement or intrusion of foreign forces takes place. Anna Starobiniec – whose oeuvre is placed by critics on the verge of fantasy and metaphysical thriller – derives from the legacy of the 19th century fantasy, yet she adds a modern touch to it. Classifying Jelena Dołgopiat’s work causes more difficulty. The most adequate term to characterise her short stories seems to be ultra fiction; still, it does not embrace the complexity of these works.

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