MIT MESJASZA W KSIĘGACH JAKUBOWYCH OLGI TOKARCZUK

• Authors: Maria Olędzka

Title variants

EN

THE MYTH OF THE MESSIAH IN OLGA TOKARCZUK’S THE BOOKS OF JACOB

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

 Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob tells the little-known story of the (pseudo-)Messiah, Jacob Leibovitz Frank. Yet the motif of the Messiah recurs in the novel also in other contexts. Apart from Jacob Frank, it features such characters as: Jesus Christ, Sabbata Zevi, Barukhia, and Eve Frank. With this in mind, the article analyzes the reader’s expectations connected with the figure of the Messiah, the representations of the myth of the Messiah in Tokarczuk’s novel, and the way in which salvation is defined in the text.

EN

Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob tells the little-known story of the (pseudo-)Messiah, Jacob Leibovitz Frank. Yet the motif of the Messiah recurs in the novel also in other contexts. Apart from Jacob Frank, it features such characters as: Jesus Christ, Sabbata Zevi, Barukhia, and Eve Frank. With this in mind, the article analyzes the reader’s expectations connected with the figure of the Messiah, the representations of the myth of the Messiah in Tokarczuk’s novel, and the way in which salvation is defined in the text.

Keywords

PL

Mesjasz; mit; Księgi Jakubowe; Olga Tokarczuk; Jakub Frank; Jezus Chrystus; Sabbataj Cwi; Ewa Frank

EN

the Messiah; myth; The Books of Jacob; Olga Tokarczuk; Jacob Frank; Jesus Christ; Sabbatai Zevi; Eve Frank

• Publisher: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
• Journal: Prace Polonistyczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Pages: 115-134

Dates

published

2019-11-21

Contributors

author

Maria Olędzka

Identifiers

DOI

10.26485/PP/2019/74/6