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Język halucynacji w prozie modernistów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej (rekonesans)
The Hallucination Discourse in Central and East-European Modernist Prose

Author(s): Ewa Paczoska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: hallucination; dream; short story; realness; city
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses how a specific hallucination discourse emerges as a mean to approach reality in East and Central-European modernist prose (L. S. Liciński, G. Krúdy, L. Klíma, G. Csáth, A. Schnitzler, G. Meyrink). The author claims that this discourse’s importance is relevant to the region’s geopolitic and ontologic instability, diagnosed by the writers.

  • Page Range: 103-121
  • Page Count: 19
  • Publication Year: 2017
  • Language: Polish