ARTUR SANDAUER’S TOPOGRAPHY OF IDENTITY The article discusses the role of spatial elements in constructing identity in autobiographic texts of the Polish critic and writer Artur Sandauer (1913–1989). Sandauer appears as a ...

The paper discusses dialectical tension between originality and repeatability in modern and post-modern autography (i.e. autobiography, or self-writing, in the broadest, trans-generic and trans-discursive sense of the ...

The paper analyses the links between the literary grotesque and first-person narration. Except drama, it is the first-person fiction that affords most room for the grotesque. There are several reasons for such a close ...

Kazimierz Brandys and singular truth The article offers a comprehensive overview of Kazimierz Brandys’s works, exploring them in a personal perspective as the writer’s struggle with the experience of imposed and undesirable ...

Text in two contexts: first person narration in novels by Kazimierz Brandys The aim of the book is to characterise first-person narration and describe its main variations with regard to the works of Polish fiction writer ...

The paper is an introduction to a special issue of the journal Archiwum Emigracji (2014 [2016] vol. 1-2 (20-21)) devoted to Jewish literature written in non-Jewish languages. It briefly presents the sources of multilingualism ...

BARBARA IŁŁAKOWICZ’S “PRZYCZYNY MELANCHOLII” (“REASONS OF MELANCHOLY”) Edited by MARCIN WOŁK Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń Interpretive notes by EWA OWCZARZ Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń The article ...

The paper discusses nominal signatures – the most pronounced type of literary means relating text to its author. The personal name as a basic and universally understandable token of identity, a linguistic equivalent of ...