O „młodości przemienionej w rozpacz”. „Metamorfozy” Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego oraz „Zygmunt Ławicz i jego koledzy” Elizy Orzeszkowej

• Authors: Ewa Owczarz

Title variants

EN

On “youth turned into despair”. “Metamorphoses” by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and “Zygmunt Ławicz and His Friends” by Eliza Orzeszkowa

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Metamorfozy (Metamorphoses) by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Zygmunt Ławicz i jego koledzy (Zygmunt Ławicz and His Friends) by Eliza Orzeszkowa are treated here as two original works bearing the imprint of two separate creative personalities, although they are based on a similar creative idea and despite the fact that the structure of Orzeszkowa’s novel recalls Kraszewski’s artistic solutions. Both works are similar in content. Using similar metaphors, they attempt to portray metamorphoses in a group of young friends, which are to symbolize more than the passage of time and effects of biological and social laws − both are to express the experience of political bondage. They differ, however, in artistic solutions, which make Metamorphoses, a work based on a myth, a comforting story about the order of human existence; whereas in case of Orzeszkowa’s work they allow us to define it as a novel about dying out, a pessimistic diagnosis of social and political conditions.

Keywords

PL

metamorfoza; młodość; powieść o pokoleniu; Józef Ignacy Kraszewski; Eliza Orzeszkowa

EN

Józef Ignacy Kraszewski; Eliza Orzeszkowa; metamorphosis; youth; a novel about a generation

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(6) cz.2
• Pages: 191-208

Dates

published

2019-10-01

Contributors

author

Ewa Owczarz

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu