NARCISSUS IN A TRAGIC MASQUE: A DOUBLE AS AN EXTERIORIZATION OF THE SOUL IN LEO BELMONT'S STORY 'TAMTEN CZLOWIEK' (THAT MAN)

• Authors: Samborska-Kukuc D.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In his story 'Tamten czlowiek' (That Man), Leo Belmont explores a popular in the romanticism and modernism theme of a double manifested in physical pathologies. A hero, suffering from a paranoid disorder, thinks that his own reflection in a well is his spiritual counterpart - a double - imprisoned there and suffering due to his personality split into the spiritual and the physical. The well is an exemplification of the soul hero of the hero, who - like Narcissus contemplating his reflection - turns to melancholia and self-admiration, and experiences innermost emotions mixed with a feeling of impossibility to comprehend the mystery of the double existence. Induced by hallucinations, he builds an odd and profound theory of the word's common doubleness which, in spite of its author's physical abnormalities, takes a shape of a manifested philosophical tractatus.

Keywords

EN

BELMONT LEO; THAT MAN

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 96
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 121-130
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Samborska-Kukuc D.

• D. Samborska-Kukuc, Uniwersytet Lodzki, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Lodz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00411021