Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

This paper briefly analyses the issue of Silesian identity at the end of the First World War and during the failed Bolshevik revolution in Germany, presented in the novel Pokora [Humility] by Silesian writer Szczepan Twardoch. Silesianity implies alienation for the main character, Alois Pokora, which leads to a fear of assuming any kind of identity. The discussion employs an anthropological and cultural perspective based on Z. Bauman’s theses.