Polish Studies of Kyiv: works of International scientific conference, Kyiv, 23-25 of May, 2018. / chief editor R. Radyshevskyi. – vol. XXXV. – Kyiv: Talkom, 2019. – P. 56-61.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/psk.2019.35.56-61

Baidatska S.

IMMIGRATION PROBLEMATICS IN THE NARRATIVE DISCOURSE OF JOSEF IGNACY KRASZEWSKI

Abstract. The article devotes to the immigration problematics in the creative work of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski – the leading spiritual and intellectual leader of Polish immigration after the January uprising. The contribution of a writer to the development of the cultural life of the Polish immigration of the 19-th century in the field of fiction, literary criticism, journalism, publishing and public activities were characterized as the theme of the January uprising determined the direction and problematics of the journalistic and public activities of the writer of the Dresden period of life and work. Peculiarities of creative rethinking of consequences of the Polish Insurrection of 1863 in the large-scale artistic heritage of Josef Ignacy Kraszewski, in particular, in the cycle of novels on political issues that were published under the pseudonym Bogdan Boleslavit “The Child of the Old City” (1863), “We and They” (1865), “Moscal” (1865), “The Jew” (1866), “Travelers “(1968-1970),” In a Strange Land “(1871). In the Dresden period the creativity of Josef Ignacy Kraszewski acquired new features – profound analytic and critical judiciousness of judgements. It should be noted the richness of the problematics and genre variety of the creative work of Kraszewski in this period.

The novel “In a Strange Land” contains abundance of social realities, emotional images of conflicts and characters of the work. The narrative strategy of the novel is determined by the emotionality, sensuality and high degree of the presence of the narrator in the work through the indirect representation of his personal feelings, ideas and the declaration of a personal social position

On the material of the novel “In a Strange Land” the motive of expulsion, martyrdom, involuntary journey, travel-escape is analyzed both in the literature of the mentioned period and in the narrative discourse of Josef Ignacy Kraszewski. The writer demonstrates the intersection of Polish and foreign culture from his own position of emigrant. The article analyzes the intricate mechanism of saving national identity in such political situation after January uprising

Keywords: immigration, “friend or foe” novel, travel, Josef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Information about author: Svitlana Baidatska, PhD, teaching assistant, Department of Polish studies, Institute of Philology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

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