Don Kichot – smutny uśmiech czy groteskowy grymas? Warianty łączenia elementów komizmu i tragizmu w powieści Cervantesa, Królu Learze Szekspira, Monsignor Quixote Grahama Greene’a i Ostatnim husarzu Sławomira Mrożka

• Authors: Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand

Title variants

EN

Don Quixote – a rueful smile or a grotesque grin? Combinations of comic and tragic elements in Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s King Lear, Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote and Sławomir Mrożek’s The Last Hussar

Abstracts

EN

The article opens with a brief history of a genre of literary works that blend both tragic and comic elements, the latter of which seem to have been increasingly more prominent in European culture in general. This article examines various functions of the tragic and comic combination in Cervantes’ Don Quixote, some scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear, and two modern narrative fictions, where the main character is simultaneously heroic and comic, Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote and Sławomir Mrożek’s short story The Last Hussar.

Keywords

EN

tragicomedy; mock-epic; satire; absurd comedy; Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616); William Shakespeare (1564–1616); Graham Greene (1904–1991); Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013)

PL

Nauki Humanistyczne i Społeczne; tragikomizm; epika heroikomiczna; realizm; satyra; absurd

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 993-1006

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand

• Wydział Polonistyki UJ

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

28763305