Searching the Language of Hurted Creatures. About Joanna Bator’s Novel Darkness, Almost Night Cover Image

W poszukiwaniu języka skrzywdzonych. Wokół Ciemno, prawie noc Joanny Bator
Searching the Language of Hurted Creatures. About Joanna Bator’s Novel Darkness, Almost Night

Author(s): Agnieszka Czyżak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Psychology, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: child; emotions; trauma; language; experience; expression

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present an interpretation of one of literary visions of traumatic experiences. Suffering a wrongs in childhood is, by the author, the main cause of many problems in grown people’s life. Those wounds, psychical and physical, may not be cured. The destruction of emotional sphere of human personality causes also a damage of the language capable to express not only trials or harms but even commonplace experiences. Joanna Bator in her novel examines also the abilities of cultural patterns especially those permitting to understand the trauma dimensions and describes the changes of principles ruling a common life.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 209-222
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish