Autokreacja Stefana Chwina w jego Kartkach z dziennika

Abstract

Pages from a Diary by Stefan Chwin is clearly distinguished among many published autobiographical texts because their author purposefully connects different ways of conducting the autobiographical monologue. He auto-interprets his inner T, and he does it as far intentionally as he wants to transmit certain important moral and philosophical message together with his own image. Similarly to all previous Chwin’s novels, Pages from a Diary also contains a universal canon of behaviour, interpretation of the relation between the good and the evil, affirmation of normality, fascination with the Gothic, the bourgeois culture of the pre-war residents of Gdansk and the author-narrator himself. Creating his own literary double, Chwin took advantage of the basic directives for the formation of a legend, from which the most expressive ones are: support of the legend creator, annexation of the legend of a well- known man (he presented himself as a favourite disciple and then associate of Maria Janion and a friend of Czeslaw Milosz). He creates himself as a romantic lover and an artist who is not fully understood by the society.