Przestrzeń miejska i przełom. "Czytadło" Tadeusza Konwickiego i "Aż do trzewi" Christy Wolf
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2007
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Wydawnictwo-Drukarnia Bonami/Pracownia Komparatystyki Literackiej IFP UAM
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The article deals with the creation of the urban area of East Berlin and Warsaw in the light of
the political breakthrough during the years of 1989-1990. The selection of Tadeusz Konwicki’s works entitled
“Czytadło” and Christa Wolf’s “AŜ do trzewi” stems from a similar narrative situation (the characters’ journeys
through the changing sceneries of the capitals, similar narrative strategies) which is a monologue said in the form
of “boring into” the layers of the speaker’s memory and similarly perceived account taking – by means of
bestowing symbolical value to fragments of the city. The Warsaw sceneries do not resemble the East Berlin
ones. Insofar as it is seen in the eyes of the narrator of “Czytadło” the Polish capital becomes a place of easternwestern
colonization in the transformation times. Yet, Berlin in Wolf’s short story is a dead city, existing only in
the realm of dream and memory. Wolf’s short story utilizes the body-world metaphor to show that the healing
process of the narrator is connected with revealing other levels of the history of East Berlin.
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Polska i Niemcy, transformacja, literatura polska po 1989, literatura niemiecka po przełomie, dyskurs postkolonialny
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PORÓWNANIA. Czasopismo poświęcone zagadnieniom komparatystyki literackiej oraz studiom interdyscyplinarnym. nr 4, 2007, s. 177-193.
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1733-165X