Żałobne narracje o rodzinie i rzeczach. „Książka” Mikołaja Łozińskiego oraz „Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem” Marcina Wichy

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to examine the human’s attitude towards the other’s death. The field of research was limited to the death testimony of a parent in Polish literature after 1989, based on Mikołaj Łoziński’s Book (2011) and Marcin Wicha’s Things, I didn’t Throw Away (2017). The analysis was focused on the way in which the biographies of the deceased can be created by memories of them in the different phases of grief, and on the creation of intergenerational connections between the orphaned subjects and the material remains corresponding to the life of the dead.

Keywords

• (auto)biography
• mourning
• death
• orphaned items
• biographical memory