Małe formy narracyjne w twórczości Zygmunta Niedźwieckiego i Elina Pelina

Abstract

This article is devoted to short narrative forms in the works of Zygmunt Niedźwiecki and Elin Pelin. Both Polish and Bulgarian writers function on the margins of interest of contemporary researchers and readers. In this article I focus on the depiction of the animal world. Pelin’s work is dominated by creatures identified with the rural space, while Niedźwiecki’s is dominated by exotic species assigned to urban space. Both artists notice the unique features of animals, which prove their subjective status. Niedźwiecki uses anthropomorphisation mainly in the episodes that show the dramatic struggle of animals to survive. In Pelin, the observation of animal behaviour becomes an attempt to understand their different way of perceiving reality. What is worth emphasising, in the work of the Bulgarian writer animals are a link between the human world and God.