Noc, sen i bezsenność w powieści Borysa Pasternaka Doktor Żywago

• Authors: Zygmunt Zbyrowski

Title variants

EN

Night, sleep and insomnia in Boris Pasternak’s Doktor Zhivago

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In the novel the night is usually recalled as a time intended for sleep. Sometimes, however, it creates special circumstances for confessions or earnest conversations, which take up the time of sleep. Similarly, sleep is an ordinary physiological state serving rest and the regeneration of strength. Nonetheless, it can also fulfil additional psychological functions, and be associated with profound experiences and recollections or give rise to reflections. Insomnia is an abnormal phenomenon, always caused or conditioned by some sort of exceptional events disturbing the activity and psychic states of the protagonists.

Keywords

EN

Pasternak, sleep, ordinary physiological state, psychological functions, insomnia, abnormal phenomenon

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Slavica Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 155
• Pages: 249-256

Contributors

author

Zygmunt Zbyrowski

• Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy, Polska