Modern Polish Literature: Through a Postcolonial Lens - The Case of Paweł Huelle’s Castorp
Modern Polish Literature: Through a Postcolonial Lens - The Case of Paweł Huelle’s Castorp

Summary/Abstract: "Castorp by Paweł Huelle, Poland’s most accomplished contemporary writer (1), has frequently been interpreted as a counterpart to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain. A reader of Mann’s novel may remember that before his arrival at Davos, Hans Castorp spent four terms as a student at the Danzig Polytechnic. It is around this digression that Huelle builds his plot, inserting into the biography of Mann’s protagonist an extensive Gdańsk-based episode. Both Polish and German critics have praised Huelle for his skilful exploitation of literary tradition and for revitalizing the myth of Gdańsk with its distinctive atmosphere and surroundings."

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