Pierwiastek tragiczny w miniaturach Nadieżdy Teffi początku lat 20. XX wieku

Abstract

Nadezhda Teffi built her reputation as the author of widely read humoresques. With time, however, laughter and satire present in her stories began to show a different dimension of the text – tragism. Such perception of reality intensified in the early 1920s, when the object of her accurate observations became Russian emigrants. Teffi exposes difficult or even desperate situation in which her countrymen found themselves fighting abroad to survive. The writer emphasises the accompanying sense of alienation, inadequacy, loneliness, longing for the homeland and at the same time she highlights their weaknesses and ridiculousnesses. A great dose of humor, with which Teffi’s emigration stories are saturated, not only does not deprive them of tragic overtones but actually strengthens them.