Rozrachunki ze wstrętem w „Trocinach” Krzysztofa Vargi. Wstręt, innowacja, poznanie
Settling Accounts with Shame in Krzysztof Varga’s Trociny [Sawdust]: Disgust, Innovation, Cognition

Summary/Abstract: Disgust is a prominent affect in Polish literature today. It appears obsessively in the works of Dorota Masłowska, Sławomir Shuty, Michał Witkowski, Krzysztof Varga and other writers. By provoking disgust, contemporary literature tries to renegotiate the nation’s fixed vision of Polishness. The disgust with which those writers operate becomes a catalyst for change – it is what must be changed and what conditions change. By analysing Krzysztof Varga’s novel Trociny [Sawdust], which showcases the main character’s disgust with the people around him as well as Poland as a whole, Wróblewski demonstrates that disgust is innovative in nature and that it is a form of criticism directed at both the narrator’s repulsion and the country’s flaws.

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