Językowa kreacja drogi w powieści Matka Ignacego Maciejowskiego (Sewera)
The linguistic creation of a road in the novel Matka [Mother] by Ignacy Maciejowski

Summary/Abstract: In the novel Matka a parallel, two-dimensional creation of a road can be observed – physical and metaphoric. In the creation of a road Maciejowski used the contrast between the road to the town – which is bad, black, demons-infested, difficult, tiresome, with blurring destination, and the road home – to the village, to the idyll, to one’s own folks. The descriptions of nature play a significant role in the imaging of the covered distance. They complement the creation of the different stages of the road, and affect the emotions, feelings, and experiences of the main character of the novel. The colours are also a factor used for creating a road in the Sewer’s novel. The writer uses a palette of colours – from a dark, black to white and it’s shadows, and occasionally blue, navy-blue, red and pink. A road covered by the mother is a sacred place, a space which can be travelled with the divine help.

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