Piekielne, latające maszyny”, czyli nowoczesność według Kornela Makuszyńskiego

• Authors: Małgorzata Chrobak

Title variants

EN

„The Infernal Flying Machines” or modernity according to Kornel Makuszyński

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author analyzes the books for children and young adults written by Kornel Makuszyński in the interwar period in the context of modernity. The article discusses the motifs of travelling by train, flying by airplane, urban and industrial landscapes, construction of the Gdynia seaport, and others, in selected 1930s novels: Awantura o Basię (Argument about Basia), Wielka brama (The Great Gate), Skrzydlaty chłopiec (The Winged Boy) and Wyprawa pod psem (Expedition with a Dog). On the basis of those works of fiction the author discusses Makuszyński’s attitude to progress, urbanization and technological developments, i.e. the phenomena which absorbed Polish society between the two world wars.

Keywords

EN

children’s fiction; young-adult fiction; Kornel Makuszyński; the interwar period; modernity; image of technology in literature; railway travel

• Publisher: Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk w Przemyślu
• Journal: Rocznik Przemyski
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 2: Literatura i Język
• Pages: 109-120

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Chrobak

Identifiers

ISSN

0137-4168