Melancholics on the Vistula River

Authors

  • Dariusz Piechota University of Bialystok

DOI:

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

Keywords:

melancholy, youth, consumption, transience, depression

Abstract

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.

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Published

2021-02-21

How to Cite

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

Issue

No. 1 (2020): Special Issue in English, No. 1: A Selection of the Decade

Section

Profiles

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