„It so happens” – about writing of Ewa Nowacka Cover Image

Tak się zdarza – o pisarstwie Ewy Nowackiej
„It so happens” – about writing of Ewa Nowacka

Author(s): Agnieszka Miernik
Subject(s): Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: literature of manners; myth; archetype; literature for young people; reader

Summary/Abstract: Ewa Nowacka occupies an important place among the contemporary Polish writers and her prose works for young recipients, extensive as far as various subjects and genres are concerned, contain many inventive, unique concepts and writing ideas. Nowacka is, first of all, the author of novels of manners and historical ones, in which the writer presents her imagination, her aspiration for the reconstruction of life of manners, cultural life, concern for noticing concrete things, details, which are the background of experience of a young character who struggles with eternal, archetypical problems, the universalism and psychologism of which is the strong point of the author’s writing. The recipient of Ewa Nowacka’s works notices that characters create their destiny through ordinary struggle, that it is necessary to mythologize the existence in order to understand the world.

  • Issue Year: 6/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 44-51
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish