AMOR MŁODOPOLSKI. O WYJĄTKOWOŚCI TRĘDOWATEJ HELENY MNISZEK

The aim of the paper is to analyse the Trędowata by Helena Mniszek from the angle of the Polish novel about love – a kind of literature developed in the age of modernism. First, the constitutive elements of Mniszek’s work (playing part in commercial success of the book) are distinguished. Next, the main characters of Trędowata are analysed from the wide methodological perspective which allows to recognize them as representations of cultural archetypes as well as of Greimasian structural functions. Finally, the paper takes up the question of socio-anthropological background of mass culture and focuses on some social problems connected with the popularity of the literature instantiated by Trędowata.