What am I, what am I not — Stanisław Czycz, Zygmunt Haupt and their attitude towards tradition

Abstract

Despite significant differences between the authors’ life experience — determined by histor-ical events, different social, political and cultural reality and also the tradition and values they fol-lowed — it is worth comparing the prose works of Zygmunt Haupt (living as an emigrant) and Stanisław Czycz (living in his homeland) in order to indicate distinctions or even contrast between the strategies concerning the subject and identity that were proposed by them. By definition, those strategies have to take into account the principles of identification with society (and social norms), national culture and literary tradition.