Lucien Goldmann, autor “Don Kichota”. Perspektywa socjologii literatury
Lucien Goldmann, the author of “Don Quixote”: The Perspective of the Sociology of Literature

Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes a proposal of looking at literary images of social phenomena as a subject of sociological research. It refers to Lucien Goldmann’s point of view on genetic structuralism, in particular to the criticism addressed against it. The text uses statements of those eminent scholars who expressed their opinions about Goldmann’s way of analyzing literature at the time of its greatest popularity. The contemporary presence of this approach in Western humanities is also marked here. In reflecting on possible interpretations and modifications of Goldmann’s method, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges – namely one titled Pierre Menard, the author of Don Quixote – is used as an artistic illustration of a scientific theory.

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