In the Post-Modern Supermarket or Onimic Garbage? On the Role of Names in Polish Contemporary Prose

Abstract

The paper remarks on the role of literary names in contemporary Polish prose. The author notices that in the works under analysis aside to the proper nomine propria, we find a numerous group of quasi-names or individual descriptions. The essential result of the analysis is the perception that the hierarchy of the function of these names is different, and the rank of intertextual and metatextual function is especially significant.