Władysław Sabowski’s Suicide. Carpathian novel: popular regio Cover Image

Samobójca. Powieść karpacka Władysława Sabowskiego: popularna powieść regionalna
Władysław Sabowski’s Suicide. Carpathian novel: popular regio

Author(s): Aneta Narolska
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: suspense-ethnographic novel; regionalism; mountains in literature

Summary/Abstract: Suicide. Carpathian novel by Władysław Sabowski is considered to be the first modern Polish crime fiction. It focuses on crime, but there is no riddle or a way leading to the solution of the mystery. The suspense intertwines with the author’s ethnographic ambitions. The motif of mountains is used not only to present the murder, and “Carpathianity”, as suggested by the subtitle, is realised on a few levels: space, material culture, the bandit myth and allusions to the literature on mountains. Suicide may be considered to be a popular regional novel.

  • Issue Year: 50/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 29-48
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish