Poetics of a Dream in The Novels by Tadeusz Nowak “When You Are a King or a Torturer” and by Miodrag Bulatović “Hero on the Ass” Cover Image

Poetyka oniryczna w powieści Tadeusza Nowaka „A jak królem, a jak katem będziesz” i Miodraga Bulatovicia „Bohater na ośle”
Poetics of a Dream in The Novels by Tadeusz Nowak “When You Are a King or a Torturer” and by Miodrag Bulatović “Hero on the Ass”

Author(s): Aldona Szukalska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: poetics of a dream; Tadeusz Nowak; "When You Are a King or a Torturer"; Miodrag Bulatović; "Hero on the Ass"

Summary/Abstract: The Polish writer Tadeusz Nowak and the Serbian one of Montenegrin origin Miodrag Bulatović are linked by the same generation, interest in war subjects, aspect of visual prose immense sensibility, and a surrealistic type of imagination, and also the creation of the world according to the pattern of a dream logic. Though Nowak and Bulatović employ similar approaches in their dream techniques, such as smoothness, transparency, objectification, and animation, one may speak about two different poles of the same phenomena. The temperamental Serbian writer in “Hero on the Ass” shocks with “wild imagination”, while Nowak in “When You Are a King or a Torturer” makes a poetic-arcadian vision of a village. Common to both writers issue of war and love was depicted differently: Nowak focused on moral dilemmas, whereas Bulatović presents war as a hell in which nothing can survive.

  • Issue Year: 2007
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 131-154
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish