Scholarly Article
Searching the Language of Hurted Creatures. About Joanna Bator's Novel Darkness, Almost Night
Czyżak, Agnieszka
2015-12-04 · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne · Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
Abstract
The aim of the article is to present an interpretation of one of literary visions of traumatic experiences. Suffering a wrongs in childhood is, by the author, the main cause of many problems In grown people's life. Those wounds, psychical and physical, may not be cured. The destruction of emotional sphere of human personality causes also a damage of the language capable to express not only trials or harms but even commonplace experiences. Joanna Bator in her novel examines also the abilities of cultural patterns especially those permitting to understand the trauma dimensions and describes the changes of principles ruling a common life.
Keywords
child, emotions, trauma, language, experience, expression
Citation Details
Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, pp. 209-222