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Od bowaryzmu do globus histericus: głód idealnej miłości jako efekt edukacji kobiet w XIX wieku
2020
A woman made unhappy by her dreams of an ideal love is the main character of two novels belonging to the Realist/Positivist movement: Gustave Flauberts’s Madame Bovary (1857) and Eliza Orzeszkowa’s On the Niemen (1888). Emma Bovary and Emilia Korczyńska have been educated according to the same sentimental pattern; they both have an undue feeling of being much more sublime than their milieu where they cannot find a man of their dreams. This makes them suffer and drift apart from real life.
Gli spettri, il conforto della letteratura e l’autenticità del reale nell’esperienza concentrazionaria di Charlotte Delbo
2020
The Holocaust literature transforms many narrative categories in an attempt to find forms capable of conveying the historical experience of extermination. As an alternative to the impossible mimetic reproduction of reality, many authors resort to the imaginary and its rhetorical and narrative devices to reconstruct the concentrationary experience. The essay aims to trace the forms and functions of phantasmagoria in some texts by Charlotte Delbo where the transfiguration of reality makes the process of remembrance possible and, at the same time, the recomposition of the subject.
"Lo specchio della terra": Down Below e le visioni fantasmagoriche di Leonora Carrington
2020
This article focuses on the phantasmagorical vision that can be observed in Leonora Carrington’s memoir Down Below, a work which mingles autobiography with some elements of fiction to tell about the author’s experience of mental disorder during World War II. The work is disseminated with hermetic messages animated by animal transfigurations of human beings and symbolic descriptions of space which are analysed here with the aim to restore literary value to the conscious phantasmagorical representation of this life experience. The memoir is here considered as an admirable surrealist narration of the young artist’s resistance towards family and social constraints. The rich visual language used…
Czytanie Süskinda
2016
Plots created by Patrick Süskind are transparent and uncomplicated; they follow a conventional path, seemingly aloof from formal modernist experiments, and close with distinctive endings; in popular reception, they give a sense of confidence that even the most fantastic worlds, derived from the corners of imagination, may be set into a familiar and closed whole. Perhaps this simplicity makes it easy to be satisfied by their seductive plot and steer clear off tracks leading to the content encrypted within the deep structure. The author of the present paper attempts to interpret the short stories: {Maître Mussard's Bequest} and {The Story of Mr Sommer} as a metaphorical and grotesque vision o…