http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18224 Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:28:05 GMT 2026-06-01T18:28:05Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18261 Tytuł: W świecie dusz „ukradzionych”. Olega Bogajewa czytanie Gogola Autorzy: Biegluk-Leś, Weronika Abstrakt: This article analyzes Oleg Bogayev’s play Bashmachkin. The Miracle of the Overcoat in One Act, a postmodern remake of Nikolai Gogol’s canonical short story The Overcoat. The author of the article points out that Bogayev is consistently breaking binary oppositions in the depiction of the fictional world and maximizing the strategy of play, for instance, pushing the category of subjectivity to the limits of absurdity. Bogayev preserves and reinterprets the main elements of Gogol’s story (theft, the semantics of the overcoat, the protagonist’s death), modifying the structure and composition of the original, introducing a plethora of new characters, and brutalizing the depicted world through the escalation of violence. By retelling the story of the “little man” Akaky Akakievich, the author perceives him as a realization of the archetype of Russian consciousness (the Russian man). He highlights the moral and psychological consequences of escapism and the traumatic, destructive role of violence. The specificity of Bogayev’s dialogue with the classics takes the form of a feedback loop, combining a view of contemporary reality through the lens of the classics with a view of the classics from the perspective of the present, revealing both the relevance and the universality of the themes addressed by Gogol. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18261 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18260 Tytuł: Łakome Małgorzaty Lebdy jako przykład tekstu maladycznego Autorzy: Zielonka, Maria Abstrakt: This article proposes an interpretation of Małgorzata Lebda’s debut novel, Łakome [The greedy], which is a record of the protagonist’s experience of her grandmother’s cancer. The work is a form of cancerography, in which the author combines autobiographical elements with literary fiction, portraying the intimate experiences of the characters and their struggle with the disease. As Susan Sontag noted, each of us belongs to both worlds, the world of the healthy and the sick. Over the centuries, ways of dealing with illnesses have changed, from magic and herbalism to the modern holistic approach to health, which embraces the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a person. One way of dealing with an illness is through writing, such as a diary. Disease narratives, also known as pathographies, play a therapeutic role, helping authors and readers to process the emotions associated with the illness. By fitting into the maladic discourse, Lebda demonstrates that illness affects the entire surroundings of the patient, and that everyone, human and animal alike, is equal in the presence of death. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18260 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18259 Tytuł: Hipermiejsce. Temporalne doświadczanie przestrzeni w Weiserze Dawidku Pawła Huellego Autorzy: Michalski, Mateusz Adam Abstrakt: The article attempts a new reading of Paweł Huelle’s novel Weiser Dawidek through “toporeading” (Michalski). On the basis of a case study, the author of the article proposes a distinctive mode of temporal experience of space, which combines classical concepts concerning the functioning of memory, oscillating between opposite poles – synchrony (Heidegger, Husserl) and diachrony (Marcel, Bergson). Confronting both ways of perceiving time – assuming their potential to create a complementary structure – with the literary record of the experience of space in Huelle’s novel allows, in the author’s opinion, for the emergence of a third kind of temporal experience of space as a hypersite. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18259 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18256 Tytuł: Sławomir Mrożek wobec krajobrazów Autorzy: Sidoruk, Elżbieta Abstrakt: This paper examines the poetics of recording the experience of a particular geographical space in Sławomir Mrożek’s Diary and his correspondence with Stanisław Lem. Referring to a self-comment contained in one of the letters, in which the writer states that he prefers to “work in the sphere of inference rather than description”, the author analyses Mrożek’s way of perceiving landscapes and “elaborating” on the observations and sensations registered during his initial period of the stay outside Poland. As she demonstrates, the writer is more interested in the cultural than in aesthetic dimension of the observed landscapes. Mrożek’s way of reading the meanings of the surrounding geographical space is predominantly occulocentric, but sometimes it is also conditioned by olfactory and haptical sensations. The particularity of Mrożek’s reading of the landscapes of Western Europe is also determined by the fact that the writer adopts a confrontational attitude, perceiving them through the prism of the cultural experience of a newcomer from Eastern Europe. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11320/18256 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z