Modernistic displays of mental disintegration… On The Dreamer by Władysław Stanisław Reymont Cover Image

Modernistyczne przejawy dezintegracji psychicznej… Wokół Marzyciela Władysława Stanisława Reymonta
Modernistic displays of mental disintegration… On The Dreamer by Władysław Stanisław Reymont

Author(s): Dominik Borowski
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Psycholinguistics, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Reymont; psychological novel; mental disintegration;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to analyse and interpret Władysław Stanisław Reymont’s novelistic sketch entitled The Dreamer. The article opens with background information on the socio-cultural context of the modernist period of Young Po¬land (Młoda Polska), the transformations of its novels and its psychological interests. In the next part, the author offers a short presentation of Reymont’s literary output, which is followed by a detailed analysis of the main protagonist’s behavio¬ur with regard to the symptoms of his mental disintegration (dereism, dysphoria, depersonalisation).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 161-171
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish