Nowatorstwo modernistycznej prozy Alfreda Döblina na przykładzie opowiadania "Die Ermordung einer Butterblume" (Mord na kwiecie kaczeńca)

• Authors: Kołodziejczyk-Mróz, Beata

Title variants

PL

The novelty of the modernist prose by Alfred Döblin on the example of the story 'Die Ermordung einer Butterblume' (The Murder of a Buttercup)

Abstracts

EN

Alfred Döblin’s short story Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (The Murder of a Buttercup), from the collection Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen (1910–1911), is considered a key prose text of early German expressionism. It describes the deconstruction of an individual by nature, the superiority of which must be recognised by a man living in a big city, alienated and “uprooted” from nature. Any attempt to return to the original place of life is bound to fail. Employing a dual (real and surreal) image of the world, Döblin creates an innovative portrayal of the protagonist – Michael Fischer, presenting the reader with the world of his internal and external experience and treating his case as a study of psychosis.

Keywords

EN

German Expressionism; dualistic view of the world; study of psychosis; terror; ekspresjonizm niemiecki; dualistyczny obraz świata; studium psychozy; groza

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Kołodziejczyk-Mróz, Beata

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Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny im. KEN w Krakowie, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Neofilologii, Katedra Literatury Niemieckojęzycznej

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21823

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.33.16