Autokreacja literacka w twórczości Stefana Chwina

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of literary auto-creation, which is presented on the basis of Stefan Chwin’s literary output. All works of the prose writer from Gdansk were treated as a uniform whole, which mirrors the author’s literary biography, and which was divided into two categories. The first one comprises two pieces directly connected with the author’s biography, namely - Krótka historia pewnego żartu (1991) and Kartki z dziennika (2004). His remaining novels form the other category, in which autobiographical motifs are developed between the truth and fiction - Hanemann (1995), Esther (1999) and Zloty pelikan (2003). On the basis of the enumerated works, the manner of self-exposure of Stefan Chwin’s personality was demonstrated.