Choroba jako doświadczenie istnienia. Egzystencjalistyczna proza Vladana Desnicy
Disease as an Experience of the Existence. Existentialist Prose of Vladan Desnica

Author(s): Marzena Maciulewicz
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: Article is a proposal of an analysis of disease motive in existentialist prose of Vladan Desnica. Work is based on a novel Proljeća Ivana Galeba and two selected narratives: Posjeta and Oproštaj. It starts with a short characteristic of this Yugoslavian writer’s existentialist prose and its reception by both Yugoslavian and Polish literary critics. The main part of the work is an analysis of created world with particular emphasis on character’s construction and a specific narrative. It ends with a reflection on the meaning and the function of disease motive in application to existentialist prose.

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