Anatomia filistra. Uwagi na marginesie opowiadania Władysława Stanisława Reymonta Z pamiętnika (1903)
Philistine anatomy. Remarks on the margin of Władysław Stanisław Reymont’s short story Z pamiętnika [From the Diary] (1903)

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to Władysław Reymont’s short story Z pamiętnika [From the Diary] (1903). It shows the way in which the writer uses satire and ironic distance to criticize the social attitude, identified with “being a philistine”. Drawing a picture of a petty-bourgeois family, the writer showed philistinism as an ideological way of being, in which the protagonists’ self-creation plays an important role thanks to the co-creation of notes included in the eponymous diary. The formula of non-fictional literature used by Reymont allows us to reveal the motivations of subsequent people and the contradictions of their behavior with the declared ideas.

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