FRANCUSKI - JĘZYK WOLNOŚCI?
FRENCH - THE LANGUAGE OF FREEDOM?

Summary/Abstract: Topic essay is a reflection on the French language as a language of literary expression, the choice of authors for whom this is not the native language, as well as the causes and consequences of such decisions. The starting point is the argument about the often przytaczanego statements on the special fixture of the French language for literary creation. They open a wide perspective associated with the language of literature, in whole and its special properties, as well as bearing on the question of what role creativity can serve as a changing language (release with restrictions, setting new goals and boundaries, attempt to find an identity, and the desire for unrestricted expression). Further arguments relate to the writers who chose French as the language of your creativity. They focus in particular on the analysis of language two novels, awarded Goncourtów: Testament French Andreïa Makine " (the author of Russian origin) and the Stone of patience Atiqa Rahimiego (author of Afghan origin). The next stage is reflection on the reasons that prompted the above authors to give up their native language and select the language French. These numerous factors can be divided into pragmatic, psychological and cultural. The motives, however, both authors other that stems from a different approach to language and creative writing. The final phase of the works represent reflections on the freedom of a writer to abandon the native language and the French language.

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