TY - JOUR N2 - Tadeusz Breza (1905–1970), once one of the most popular Polish writers of the twentieth century, is today one of the authors less and less read. On the other hand, his debut and arguably most outstanding novel, Adam Grywałd, has not lost its value. It has been treated as an achievement of psychologism, a testimony to his fascination with Proust,s work and a manifestation of homosexual themes. However, these are unsatisfactory interpretations and lead to the discovery of false mysteries. They obscure the psychological profiles of the individual characters. The real mystery perhaps concerns a frightening encounter with nothingness, death, destruction. Read in this way, the novel becomes a truly intriguing work. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125421/PDF-MASTER/N%23422-07-Tomkowski.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/125421 PY - 2022 IS - No 4 EP - 118 DO - 10.24425/nauka.2022.142924 KW - 20th century literature KW - Polish novel KW - Tadeusz Breza KW - psychologism A1 - Tomkowski, Jan PB - Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN DA - 2022.12.15 T1 - Tadeusz Breza's Adam Grywałd – a novel of false mysteries SP - 107 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/125421 T2 - Nauka ER -