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- Title
CZARNE EPIFANIE NOCY I DNI.
- Authors
CHYŁA, KAROLINA
- Abstract
This article explores the darkened and rarely visited zones of Maria Dąbrowska's Noce i dnie [Nights and Days] (1932-1934), a tetralogy of novels usually read as a realist family saga. In its broad panorama children and childhood have a very important place, yet what seems to have largely been ignored is the enigmatic nature of childhood and child's role as a locus of mystery. With the help of tropes of the folk imaginarium (primarily the iconic Grimms' Fairy Tales), and conceptual tools borrowed from Sigmund Freud, Bruno Bettelheim, Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva, the article analyzes Dąbrowska's multi layered and elusive characters, caught up in an endless strife trying in vain to tame the chaos within themselves and to get to grips with the threatening uncanniness of the world outside.
- Subjects
FAIRY tales; POLISH literature; LACAN, Jacques, 1901-1981; KRISTEVA, Julia, 1941-; PANORAMAS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REALIST fiction; FAMILIES; CHILDREN in literature
- Publication
Ruch Literacki, 2020, Vol 61, Issue 5, p483
- ISSN
0035-9602
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24425/rl.2020.135907