This article is an attempt to analyse specific physical and mental profile of the Polish military masculinity in selected prose texts on the Polish Legions. The author explores short stories by Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski and Zygmunt Kisielewski and a novel Odznaka za wierną służbę by Andrzej Strug – the texts which create the legend of the Legions with its protagonists having gentle features, as if shaped by the native landscape and Polish romantic military tradition. Despite a relatively monolithic character of the Polish presentation of the military masculinity, the literary texts allow for the insight into its problematic nature and reveal the ambivalences and aporias which are part of a soldier’s habitus in the era of the war of machines.
A train named disappointment. The affective program of the novels Liebeserklärung by Micheal Lentz and Trociny by Krzysztof Varga. The article is an attempt to explore the problem of emotional suffering in two contemporary novels, which are told from a male perspective. In Liebeserklärung by Michael Lentz and Trociny by Krzysztof Varga, the staging of the disappointed love goes hand in hand with a train journey. As it were a train named disappointment, the protagonists reflect upon their unhappy love, which leads to an affective program of anger, hatred and disgust. The subject of the analysis is not least the affective poetics of the two novels on crisis, love and men, which can be compared considering their search for a language of disappointed love.
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