MANN AND RÓZEWICZ - A COMPARATIVE PARALLEL (Rozewicz i Mann - paralela komparatystyczna)

• Authors: Dabrowski Mieczyslaw
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article provides a comparative analysis of Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Tadeusz Rózewicz's story 'Death in Old Decorations'. The author argues that Rózewicz's story is a subtle and, in a way, 'negative' response to Mann's work, although it contains no direct allusions to it. A close reading of the text allows one to appreciate Rózewicz's subtle play with his great predecessor. The author's interpretative idea is based on the use of the Eros/Thanatos construction common for both texts, though differently functionalized in modernism and in postmodernism.

Keywords

EN

EROS; MANN THOMAS; RÓZEWICZ TADEUSZ; THANATOS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Warsaw University, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Polish Literature and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzno-Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 3(24)
• Pages: 43-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dabrowski Mieczyslaw

• Mieczyslaw Dabrowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Literatury Polskiej, ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA076916