Nowoczesny projekt tożsamościowy w "Młynie Lewina" Johannesa Bobrowskiego
Modern identity design in "Lewin's Mill" by Johannes Bobrowski

Author(s): Anna Matysiak
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Johannes Bobrowski; Levins Mühle; identity; narrator; initiation; trickster
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to prove the thesis that Johannes Bobrowski’s "Levins Mühle" is part of modern identity project undertaken by the German writer. The author of the article analyses the style, syntax and structure of the narrator, which are used to undermine the formation of the cool and stable picture of the world. These issues are addressed in relation to the circumstances which shaped Bobrowski’s stance: his coming of age on the border of nations and cultures, as well as the context of emerging and formed nationalism and the World War II. The author uses such interpretative tools as anthropological theory of initiation and trickster and those applied in psychology of identity.

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