THE BEYOND IN SELECTED NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES BY JUAN RULFO AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (Za(swiaty) w wybranej twórczosci Juana Rulfo i Isaaka Bashevisa Singera)

• Authors: Bak Magdalena
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The worlds which emerge from the novel 'Pedro Páramo' by Juan Rulfo (1917-1986) and a selection of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), 'Yashid and Yeshida', 'Esther Kreindl the Second', 'Short Friday', 'A Wedding in Brownsville', combine an astonishing variety of traditions with the original style of their authors. A comparison of their vision of the beyond reveals a number of remarkable similarities in the way they perceive and describe the other world. It seems that in each case the imaginative projection of the beyond is deeply indebted to the writers' native culture and traditions. In reconstructing the mindset of the residents of small provincial towns, Rulfo and Singer cannot but depict their belief systems and the religious practices they cling to. At the same time the article points out some parallels of the fiction discussed here with the poetics of the so-called magic realism

Keywords

EN

JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE (20TH C.); MAGIC REALISM & TRADITION; MEXICAN LITERATURE (20TH C.); RULFO JUAN; SINGER ISAAC BASHEVIS; VISIONS OF OTHER WORLD

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Ruch Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4-5
• Pages: 350-369
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bak Magdalena

• Magdalena Bak, c/o Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydzial Polonistyki, Katedra Komparatystyki Literackiej, ul. Golebia 20, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA082614