Maska, Wenecja i miłość w powieści Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego Biała noc miłości. Opowieść teatralna

Abstract

The aim of the article is the analysis and interpretation of the motives of mask, Venice and love in Gustaw Herling-Grudziński's novel Biała noc miłości. Opowieść teatralna. The article tries to answer the questions: What is the mask for? In what way does it tell about love? In what way do es the author show Venice? The undertaken trial leads to the conclusion that in Biała noc miłości author does not want to settle the past only. You can find very personal motives in the novel, which appeared in previous texts ofHerling. However ,biographical threads are not the most important ones. Venice, which is one ofthe characters of composition, lets the author create universal story about artist's and immigrant's fate in the XXth century.