Melancholics on the Vistula River

Autor

  • Dariusz Piechota Uniwersytet w Białymstoku

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.22

Słowa kluczowe:

melancholy, youth, consumption, transience, depression

Abstrakt

The article discusses the theme of melancholy in Polish prose of the 21st century, using four contemporary novels – Pokolenie Ikea [The IKEA generation]
(2012) by Piotr C., Wszyscy jesteśmy hipsterami [We are all hipsters] (2016) by Dariusz Radecki, Melanżeria [Melangery] (2011) by Anna Klara Majewska and Za pięć rewolta [Five minutes to a revolt] (2011) by Dawid Kain – as conspicuous examples of its presence. The author suggests that due to the increased pace of social and technological changes the generation of thirty-year-olds experiences a feeling of melancholy, formerly characteristic for elderly people and analyses the protagonists of the novels selected to present how they cope with a reality that does not fulfil them.

Opublikowane

2021-02-21

Jak cytować

Piechota, D. (2021). Melancholics on the Vistula River. Tematy I Konteksty, (1), 413–426. https://doi.org/10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.22