Abstract
The article interprets Olga Tokarczuk’s essay Lalka i Perła about the novel Lalka by Bolesław Prus. An attempt will be made to explain what cognitive value this text has for the reader of Tokarczuk’s prose and for the reader who is interested in Prus’s novel, and to answer the question whether this essay can be considered as a contribution to literary-historical or other literary-scientific knowledge about Prus. The central thesis of the article is that Tokarczuk’s writing about Prus is an example of emotionalized discourse of fictionalized historiographical prose, a hybrid and marginal essayistic genre that appropriates the features of both fictional prose and modern literary scientific writing, compressing some of the traditional essay’s procedures, such as presenting personal viewpoints and intentionally impregnating the discourse with private emotional manifestations. The aim of the paper is the analysis of Tokarczuk’s writing and the assessment of the scope of her essay in the context of knowledge of Prus’s novel.
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