"Uciekałem w samotność" - figury romantycznej samotności w "Pamiętnikach szaleńca Gustava Flauberta"

• Authors: Piotr Śniedziewski
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The aim of the article is to analyze the experience of solitude in Memoirs of aMadman (1838), one of the youthful works of Gustave Flaubert, where autobiographical and fictional elements are interspersed. The narrator of Memoirs… is a loner in a threefoldsense: social (it is a result of reluctance and even hatred towards society and a consequence of misanthropy and romantic elitism), metaphysical (a man in Memoirs… seemsto be abandoned, vainly seeking rest in God or in any au-delà) and existential (Memoirs… are written by someone who is empty, burned out, unable to creatively engage in life; he is a stranger to himself). The typology seems to be an obvious affirmation of romantic phenomenon.But Flaubert’s youthful work is not imitative: the experience of loneliness has been subjected to a process of disillusion that ruins the romantic myths

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im. Edyty Stein
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 131-145

Dates

published

2014-01-01

Contributors

author

Piotr Śniedziewski

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/cbes.2014.12.9