„Czarny kozioł” lub Leśmianowska reinterpretacja „Złotego osła” Apulejusza

• Authors: Katia Vandenborre

Title variants

EN

“The Black Goat” or Leśmian’s reinterpretation of Apuleius’s “Golden Ass”

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The present article aims to study The Black Goat by Bolesław Leśmian in view of its intertextual dialogue with the antique model of metamorphic literature: Metamorphoses, or The Golden Ass by Apuleius. Although the fairy tale was published in a volume entitled Polish Fairy Tales, it is partially based on foreign sources that the author cleverly hid behind other Polish stories. The comparison of The Black Goat with The Golden Ass shows that the Polish poet drew inspiration mainly from Apuleius’s novel, in which a man is also transformed into a stubborn animal. The symbolism of colours and light, which Leśmian modernized and adapted for the modern Polish reader, confirms this hypothesis. Comparative work on both texts helps to understand Leśmian’s reinterpretation of the concept of metamorphosis and his contribution to the reflection on this topic.

Keywords

PL

Bolesław Leśmian; Apulejusz; metamorfoza; baśn; intertekstualność

EN

Bolesław Leśmian; Apuleius; metamorphosis; fairy-tale; intertextuality

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3(6) cz.2
• Pages: 209-219

Dates

published

2019-10-01

Contributors

author

Katia Vandenborre

• Université Libre de Bruxelles