Bizarre stories by Dominika Słowik

Abstract

Samosiejki by Dominika Słowik is a collection of short stories which belongs to the current of recent realist prose that willingly uses the fairy-tale convention. The category of bizarreness plays a key role in this collection, as it is closely related to the world of nature. The protagonists become witnesses to weather anomalies and aberrations in nature, which brings to mind pessimistic visions of an impending ecological disaster. The protagonists are not only observers of the changes taking place in the natural environment, but they also notice the anomalies in themselves. In Samosiejki the blurring of the boundary between what is real and what is fairy-tale also includes the boundary between what is human and what is plant.