Zarażeni rozpadem. Dekonstrukcje ojcostwa w „Gnoju” Wojciecha Kuczoka
Infected by Decay: Deconstructions of Fatherhood in Wojciech Kuczok’s „Gnój”

Summary/Abstract: The essay focuses on the father figures depicted in Wojciech Kuczok’s novel Gnój [Muck], analysing the techniques used to deconstruct these characters. The final character in the series of father figures is the image of old K. – in this relationship, the son experiences internal disintegration caused by his father’s actions, a rupture that marks the process of identity formation. As a result of painful experiences, the subject finds within himself a desire for his father’s death or imagines this death, perceiving it as liberation, the end to his torment. Thus, the deconstruction of the father on a moral, axiological and cognitive level transforms into a dream of the physical annihilation of this figure – a dream spun by an internally broken son: the destroyed dreams here of destruction.

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