Parallel living: Cross-cultural encounters in the novel Île Saint-Louis
Jamrozek-Sowa, Anna
Parallel living: Cross-cultural encounters in the novel Île Saint-Louis - 2019.
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This article analyzes the way in which Zofia Romanowicz presents the existential crisis experienced by the main character of her novel Na Wyspie [Île Saint-Louis]. This crisis is portrayed through the character’s illness, her constant sense of hovering between life and death, sleep and waking, and her French and Polish cultural identity. The source of this condition is found in her hidden, heroic past: wartime experiences, camp trauma, the alienation of immigration, and her longstanding fear of being recognized as a defector. The focus is on the narrative’s linguistic and structural composition, for example, the creation of doubles, and on the resulting systematic allusions to Romantic clichés of Polish nineteenth-century literature.
Parallel living: Cross-cultural encounters in the novel Île Saint-Louis - 2019.
58
This article analyzes the way in which Zofia Romanowicz presents the existential crisis experienced by the main character of her novel Na Wyspie [Île Saint-Louis]. This crisis is portrayed through the character’s illness, her constant sense of hovering between life and death, sleep and waking, and her French and Polish cultural identity. The source of this condition is found in her hidden, heroic past: wartime experiences, camp trauma, the alienation of immigration, and her longstanding fear of being recognized as a defector. The focus is on the narrative’s linguistic and structural composition, for example, the creation of doubles, and on the resulting systematic allusions to Romantic clichés of Polish nineteenth-century literature.
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