„Egzystencja rozbita”. Miciński, Przybyszewski, Geijerstam

Abstract

The text analyzes three novels from the beginning of the 20th century (Xiądz Faust Tadeusz Miciński, Dzieci szatana Stanisław Przybyszewski, Walka dusz Gustaf af Geijerstam). A glance into the content of these texts revealed the possibility of their comparison in the perspective of one category, which was called here the “broken existence”. In the scenery of the fatalistic turn of the 19th and 20th century, signal ing the approaching twilight of culture, agony of canons and codes hierarchizing existence – novel identifications of selected authors show the incoherence of reality, its decay, “passive and active nihilizm”/“axiological nihilism”. Heteronymous social and cultural transformations, human inclination to evil, greed, wickedness and drives, thanks to the novel recognitions of three writers, clarify that man can easily become a sower of multi-level evil, leading reality towards disaster.