„Rozdarty skafander” Rafała Wilczura. O melancholii bohatera powieści Tadeusza Dołęgi-Mostowicza
Rafał Wilczur’s ”Torn Suit“. On Melancholy of the Protagonist of Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz’s Novels

Summary/Abstract: What happens to a person who has lost those dearest to them? How does a man act when, full of joy and hopes for the future, he is deprived of the company of his beloved wife and his only daughter when he least expects it? A study of such a case is found in Tadeusz Dołega-Mostowicz’s 1936 novel Znachor [The Quack]. In her article, Sabina Kwak argues this novel is primarily an exploration of loss and mourning – of running away from oneself, the degradation of the “I,” and the attempt to bury one’s past. Kwak’s analysis of the novel’s plot focuses on the depiction of the progressive work of mourning and of the story-advancing events in Rafał Wilczur’s life, from the loss of his family and his amnesia (the annihilation of the personality) to the restoration of his memory and, through that restoration, the gift of the ability to forgive. This approach allows the author to shed new light on this most cinematic of Mostowicz’s novels, with the psychoanalytic reading uncovering a deeper layer of meaning.

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