Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media


ISSN: 2353-8694    eISSN: 2719-4361    OAI    DOI: 10.18276/au.2025.1.24-12
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Issue archive / nr 1 (24) 2025
Niewiadoma żuka. Analiza porównawcza opowiadań Przemiana autorstwa Dariusza Bitnera oraz Franza Kafki
(The Beetle. A Mystery. Comparative analysis of short stories: Przemiana by Dariusz Bitner and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka)

Authors: Marta Sobolewska ORCID
Uniwersytet Szczeciński
Keywords: intertextuality short story Dariusz Bitner Franz Kafka beetle/insect metamorphosis Vladimir Nabokov Witold Gombrowicz
Whole issue publication date:2025
Page range:13 (165-177)
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Abstract

The paper is comparative analysis and interpretation of two narrative texts: classic short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and Przemiana by Dariusz Bitner, from the volume Bulgulula (1996). The author of the article proves that Dariusz Bitner follows a tradition of high modernism. She refers to texts of two other representatives of this literature movement: Vladimir Nabokov and Włodzimierz Gombrowicz. In both of the analysed short stories, the metaphor of the transformation of a man into an insect (a beetle), which is also a literary image of an identity crisis, plays a key role. The author proves in the article that Dariusz Bitner undertakes an intertextual game with Franz Kafka and presents the issue of human identity in a different way.
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