A HUMORIST SICK OF SORROW. HARDSHIPS OF SELF-DISCOVERY IN MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 'BEFORE SUNRISE'

• Authors: Gwizdz M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article focuses on a work by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a well known author of humoristic novels. His autobiography 'Pered voskhodom solntsa' (Before Sunrise) has not been translated into Polish. It is a peculiar autobiographical book that includes paragraphs based on Sigmund Freuds's psychoanalysis and Ivan Pavlov's study on conditioning impacts on animate creatures. The interpretation presented is based on the innovative topic and composition of Zoshchenko's book. First, the circumstances of the text's origin are analysed, with the main focus on the author's motivation to look for the reasons of his neurosis. The following part of the text presents the unique, analytically-based model providing the basis of the author's quest for the roots of his mental problems. This view compares the relations between the author's illness, and his artistic works and personal life. It includes a critical view on Zoshchenko's faith in the omnipotent power of the human mind.

Keywords

EN

WRITER'S PERSONAL LIFE; WRITER'S WORK; ZOSHCHENKO'S M. 'BEFORE SUNRISE'

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 199-217
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gwizdz M.

• M. Gwizdz, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Instytut Studiów Regionalnych, al. Mickiewicza 3, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01363056