MODEL MITOGRAFICZNY I MODEL MUZYCZNY JAKO DWA SPOSOBY INTERPRETACJI STORYTELLINGU W SERIALU ŚLEPNĄC OD ŚWIATEŁ KRZYSZTOFA SKONIECZNEGO ORAZ JEGO POWIEŚCIOWYM PIERWOWZORZE
THE MYTHOGRAPHIC AND MUSICAL MODEL OF INTERPRETING STORYTELLING IN KRZYSZTOF SKONIECZNY’S TV SERIES BLINDED BY THE LIGHTS AND ITS LITERARY SOURCE

Summary/Abstract: The adventures of a Warsaw-based drug dealer described in the narratives of Żulczyk’s Blinded by theLights novel (2014) and Skonieczny’s streaming series (2018) obviously are drawn from the Britishhip-hop composition Blinded by the Lights by The Streets (2014), both from it’s musical and narrativestructure. This, in turn, is undoubtedly derived from the archetype of the mythical journey of the herodescribed in Jonathan Campbell’s seminal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). Żulczyk’sprose may indeed be a kind of extended gloss to the piece by The Streets, which takes the hero’s storyto a higher narrative level. At the same time, however, it becomes a pre-text for the series, which canalready draw on both narratives and define itself in relation to them. The above analysis shows howthis interpretative dependence can be defined by the use of different models of interpretation that areembedded in two cultural patterns: the archetypal narrative prototype of a monomyth and the narrative-musical form of a hip-hop storytelling based on the cultural framework of the mythical katabasis.

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