O „Drzewie” Wiesława Myśliwskiego i kilku dendrologicznych tropach literatury polskiej po 1989 roku
The article critically considers Wiesław Myśliwski’s play "Drzewo" [The Tree], the most important text of Polish post-war dendrological literature. The play is viewed as a typical example of the symbiotic-cum-toxic relationship between Poland and its literature, a relationship that also influences the way the world of plants is represented in other Polish literary texts. The situation in this particular case changed after 1989. These days we observe a genuine expansion of ecocriticism and its political consequences, notably in the works of Olga Tokarczuk. Apart from her writings, dendrological tropes are represented in Polish contemporary literature in the texts of Andrzej Stasiuk, Michał Witkowski, Wojciech Wencel, Jan Leończuk, and Andrzej Sapkowski. The taxonomy of all their dendrological tropes seems as urgent to be conducted as it is, in fact, impossible to achieve.
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