Przestrzeń i tożsamość. Różne wymiary dystopii w powieściach „Uroda życia” Stefana Żeromskiego i W oczach Zachodu Josepha Conrada

• Authors: Agnieszka Piwowarczyk

Title variants

EN

Space and identity. Different aspects of dystopia in the novels: “Beauty of Life” by Stefan Żeromski and Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

In this article I have shown various aspects of dystopic discourse, which refer not only to the ways of constructing space and depicted world, but also to the identity of the characters. In the initial parts of the text, I have defined the concept of dystopia and I refer it to the experience of modernity, noting its various components (positive and negative, its utopian and dystopian potential) and specificity in Central and Eastern Europe. Then, I have analysed selected novels by Stefan Żeromski and Joseph Conrad for the presence of these elements of dystopic discourse. Within the framework of the presented analysis and interpretation of the Beauty of Life and Under Western Eyes I have put special emphasis on the relationship between the specificity of modern reality in its dystopic variant and the dynamic, decaying identity of the characters.

Keywords

PL

dystopia; nowoczesność; tożsamość; przynależność narodowa; kryzys

EN

dystopia; modernity; identity; national origin; crisis

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4(7)
• Pages: 363-382

Dates

published

2014-06-02

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Piwowarczyk

• Uniwersytet Warszawski