Gry z konwencjami, realiami i demonologią słowiańską w Innych baśniach Zbigniewa Brzozowskiego
Playing with Conventions, Realities and Slavic Demonology in Zbigniew Brzozowski’s Inne baśnie [Other Tales]

Summary/Abstract: Zbigniew Brzozowski’s Inne baśnie [Other Tales] are an interesting example of literary fairy tales based on Slavic demonology, folk beliefs and tales, the history of ethnography, folklore and literature and on Polish realities, people, events and works of art. It is not once upon a time in a faraway place that the stories are set but in Cracow or in the region of Kielce, in the town of Pińczów or the village of Łowczówek. Characters include weather demons (płanetnik), fertility demons (sporysz), witches and mares next to the Polish ethnographer, folklorist, and composer Oskar Kolberg or the poet Adam Mickiewicz. Brzozowski plays with folk tales and introduces various themes and elements into them. Playing with genres, works and motifs, treating demonology, literature and his own work as one great storehouse. Drawing on its contents he creates characteristic stories and tales that are different in many ways.

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