Panny z prowincji. Ze wspomnień cyklisty Bolesława Prusa wobec mitów miłości
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Provincial young ladies. Bolesław Prus's Ze wspomnień cyklisty [Memoirs of a cyclist] and love myths
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The article places the now forgotten short story by Bolesław Prus Ze wspomnień cyklisty in the
mythological and metaliterary context. The prevalent role of amorous plots in this work thus
becomes explained through a reference to the myth of Androgyne, solidified in Plato's Feast, that
permeated Polish literature following the Romantic (A. Mickiewicz's Forefathers, Part IV) and
modernist works (S. Przybyszewski's Androgyne). The article shows Prus's critical attitude to thus
outlined tradition, which assumes a direct and spontaneous nature of amorous desire, since the
story's protagonist only "falls in love' when other suitors appear with whom he can compete for
women's favours. At the same time, the deconstruction of the androgynous myth reveals yet
another concept of desire. Hence the text meets the requirements of the "constructive parody"
described by M. Głowiński.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 11, 2009, s. 165-181.
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978-83-232-1986-6