Citation

Larenta-Boguska B. Bialostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze 2019; 2019(14): 187-201.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019)

DOI

10.15290/bsl.2019.14.13

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The article interprets the novel Gwiazda Piołun by Władysław Lech Terlecki. Its main character is based on the real life figure of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - author, painter, philosopher. The author of the article indicates the relationships between the accounts of Witkacy's death and its fictional version. Terlecki's story of a painter who escapes from war, only to commit suicide eventually, became a pretext for discussing the events from September 1939 and March 1968. © Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok. All rights reserved.

Language: pl

Keywords

suicide; biography; antisemitism; Polish People’s Republic