Człowiek – natura – sacrum. O tajemnicy istnienia na wybranych przykładach polskiej literatury wieku XIX i XX

The article is an interpretation of the literary works by Adam Mickiewicz, Bolesław Prus, Stanisław Przybyszewski, Bronisława Ostrowska, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna and (contextually) Jan Kasprowicz. The proposed rereading of these texts involves the triad human – nature – sacrum, which determines the perception of a sacralized literary world. Such perspective enables to show the vague, cosmic and arcane provenances of anthropomorphic characters (human, nature, war etc.) in the selected works and allows to underline their psychological and physical metamorphoses. Comparative mythology and ecumenical criticism were used as a starting point for the analysis, which paved the way for the deeper semantic layers of the texts, resulting in new interpretations.