Wyśniona przestrzeń emancypacji. Przykład Snów Marii Dunin Karola Irzykowskiego .......... 171
Synopsis
DREAM OUT THE SPACE OF THE EMANCIPATION. THE EXAMPLE OF KAROL IRZYKOWSKI’S
NOVEL SNY MARII DUNIN
The category of a dream focuses not only on explaining the meanings and interpretations of dreams, but also on the activity itself. The rhetoric of dreams in Karol Irzykowski’s novel Sny Marii Dunin is centered mostly on male’s point of view in European patriarchal society. The culture of male oppression is a stimulus to the affective quality of a female dream. The dreaming of a novel’s female character turns out to be a threat in a patriarchal society, which concludes in nullification of its function. Dreaming of Maria Dunin is emancipatory and affective to its character. It is a form of escape from male domination in public space and language. The affective qualities of a dream are similar to Karol Irzykowski’s remarks on the thinking process. In the following essay, I try to showcase the tension between dream and reality and to see an act of dreaming as a separate form of living.
