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Trudna sztuka dorastania a świat bohaterów Aleksandra Kuprina

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Bielniak N.

Acta Polono-Ruthenica

2017

issue 22/1

7-21

Ambiguous status of adolescents who are no longer children, while not yet adults clearly attracted Aleksandr Kuprin’s attention. In his works we find a large group of teenage girls and boys. There are also both reflections on rapid physical, physiological and psychological changes characteristic of this period as well as their impact on relationships with other people. Apart from that, Kuprin presents nightmares of puberty (fear, rebellion, alienation , loneliness and the desire to be understood at the same time, the need to be part of a group, sacrum of infatuation and profanum of nascent sensuality).

Gdy Rylski spotyka się z Nabokovem… (Dziewczynka z hotelu „Excelsior” i fenomen nimfetki)

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Brygida Pawłowska-Jądrzyk B.

Załącznik Kulturoznawczy

2014

issue 1

396-409

Eustachy Rylski’s story – A Little Girl from the Hotel ‘Excelsior’ – can be read as an example of psychological prose with a distinctive existential outline – as a literary study of alienation, aging and gradual loss of con- nections with life. There is a temptation to see in it a work that, in a di- screet way, refers to the outstanding achievements of Polish prose (such as Iwaszkiewicz’s Tatarak) and world prose (such as Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, Truman Capote’s Miriam and even some works of Edgar Allan Poe). The specific artistic character of Rylski’s work is based on the processing of various ideas linked with the illusion of the femme fatale (including the Young Poland idea of the women-animal), nymphet figures and the ‘odd child’ and introduce them into the caricatured scenery of the Polish People’s Republic. In this broad intertextual context, one can see in Inte – this ‘beautiful temptress’ but also an ordinary ‘little whore’ – something more than a literary manifestation of misogyny, a con- temporary crisis of masculinity or a battle of the sexes...

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Trudna sztuka dorastania a świat bohaterów Aleksandra Kuprina

Gdy Rylski spotyka się z Nabokovem… (Dziewczynka z hotelu „Excelsior” i fenomen nimfetki)