"Syzyfowe prace" Stefana Żeromskiego jako biofikcja o dojrzewaniu do męskości

Abstract

The article is an attempt of close reading of the Stefan Żeromski’s first novel entitled Syzyfowe prace [Sisyphus’ works]. Author tries to prove that this novel is a kind of biofiction which means the specific connection between biography and fictional prose. Then the author leads in the term hegemonic masculinity which appears not to be useful for describing a specific situation of Polish men during 19th-century unsovereignty of Polish territory. Instead author suggests two other terms which are more suitable for a problem: heroic masculinity and ironic masculinity.

Keywords

• ironic masculinity
• heroic masculinity
• hegemonic masculinity
• Stefan Żeromski
• biofiction