Published: 2020-12-08

Anna, Another and the Excluded. On Zbigniew Kruszyński’s prose

Ksenia Bardadyn

Abstract

Anna, Another and the Excluded are the main characters in Zbigniew Kruszyński’s stories: Schwedenkrauter, Na lądach i morzach and Powrót Aleksandra. Anna reveals the true colors of reality – where men nostalgically long for an archetypical image of love; Another becomes a substitute for the lost woman and then starts transforming into No­one; the Excluded represent a cursed piece of reality. Their peculiar features, habits and activities create a controversial and unconventional picture. The writer’s style complicates the reader’s view even more: voyeurism determines perception here. These characters are not only subjects of artistic depiction, but also lenses through which readers are watching or (together with the narrator) taking a peek at the world.

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Bardadyn, K. (2020). Anna, Another and the Excluded. On Zbigniew Kruszyński’s prose. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 13(1), 93–110. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/10490

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2014)
Published: 2020-12-15


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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