"...psychologia ludzka łączy się z siłami nadprzyrodzonymi" - erotyzacja relacji męsko-męskich w prozie Michała Choromańskiego : między fabularnym wabikiem a próbą psychologizacji

Abstract

The article is an attempt to characterize the ways homosexuality was presented in Michał Choromański’s prose. The author of Zazdrość i medycyna is often described (also in his own words) as “the last author of Młoda Polska period” whose main area of interest are complicated heterosexual relations overviewed through Otto Weininger-like mysoginic lenses. However, besides presenting dangerous and seductive femmes fatales Choromański also concentrated on representation of monosexual relationships with special devotion to male homosexuality. This aspect of his writing has been neglected or marginalized in literary analyses. The author tries to depict homosexuality as an important element present in Choromański’s oeuvre on three different levels: as a disturbance of the plot’s structure, as a problem of language (the figure of paralypsis) and finally as a problem of modern crisis of “homo/heterosexuality definition” (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick).