„Ja jestem wampir, cholera. Nadbużański”. Tadeusza Konwickiego gra z kiczem w powieści Rzeka podziemna, podziemne ptaki

• Authors: Elżbieta Binczycka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The article is an attempt to draw attention to the issue of kitschiness in the novel Underground River, Underground Birds by Tadeusz Konwicki, released in 1984 in the underground “second circulation” The issue of “playing with kitsch”, which had been taken up by the author of A Minor Apocalypse before, concerns the problem of patriotic or national kitsch and is one of the main topics of this text, relatively rarely analyzed by critics. The author shows that the Underground River… not only constitutes a critical approach of the author of Bohin Manor to the literature of his time but also to the very period of decline of Communist Poland with its “kitsch potential”, and  continues Konwicki’s reflection regarding the problem of Polishness and the Polish national heritage, the beginnings of which can already be noticed in an earlier novel by this author, The Polish Complex.

Keywords

PL

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Konteksty Kultury
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1-2

Dates

published

2013

online

2013-04-27

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Binczycka