„[…] jestem zdrajczynią, skoro żyję dalej”. Żałoba w „West Farragut Avenue” Agnieszki Jelonek
“[…] since I keep on living, I’m a traitor”. Grief in Agnieszka Jelonek’s „West Farragut Avenue”

Summary/Abstract: The article examines mourning within the framework of contemporary confessional literature. It analyses Agnieszka Jelonek’s West Farragut Avenue, a work rooted in the author’s personal experience. The novel is discussed in terms of the themes of love, death, and the objects left behind by the deceased, understood as repositories of memory. Drawing, among others, on Tony Walter’s model of mourning and Roland Barthes’s literary reflections on loss, the article explores how mourning is narrativized and transformed into literature. It further examines the novel’s self-referential dimension and reflects on the confessional “I” through the concept of “self-writing” as introduced by Michel Foucault. Finally, the article raises the question of the limits of confessionality, a key issue for the contemporary literary reception of confessional writing.

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