Praga Kafki i Różewicza

• Authors: Damian Romaniak

Title variants

EN

The Prague of Kafka and Różewicz: Intertextual Games with the Image of the City and Its Inhabitants

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article provides an exploration of intertextuality in Tadeusz Rożewicz’s motif of Prague and in the creation of his characters – the inhabitants of the city. It seems that in his works – Zamknięcie (Closure), Szachownica (Chessboard), Wigilia w obcym mieście (Christmas Eve in a Foreign City) and Strahovski Kamieniołom (Strahovski Quarry) – the Polish poet refers to the characters and the city of Prague that appear in the fictional works of Franz Kafka (The Trial and Description of a Struggle) as well as in his diaries and private correspondence (Diary 1910–1923, letters). The question that I discuss is the following: How do Franz Kafka’s characters and his image of Prague correspond to the Prague and the characters of Różewicz’s works?

Keywords

EN

Comparative literature; Geopoetics; Intertextuality; Franz Kafka; Tadeusz Różewicz

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Pages: p. 137-158

Contributors

author

Damian Romaniak

• Pracownia Komparatystyki, Instytut Polonistyki i Kulturoznawstwa Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, al. Piastów 40b 71-065 Szczecin