Streszczenie:
There is not any doubt that there are spheres of human culture that are capable of
appealing with a powerful force to a person’s heart at times allaying, like catharsis,
surrounding anxieties and at times bringing thrill of unexpectedness to the existence racked
with quotidian. One of these spheres is literature, the ever-growing circle of intertextuality
and social communication that, as it is held by Greenblatt, is an inconceivable “circulation
of social energy” (qtd. in Harpham xii) whose chief objective is, to continue with Pereverzev’s
pronouncement in Literature of Ancient Russia, to be “a means for the most intimate, earnest
and heartfelt communion between man and man, between the artist and reader,” (qtd. in
Jackson 60) the symbiosis allowing for a profound comprehension of archetypes permeating
this realm of meanings. Indubitably, the archetype of iniquity along with its instigator and
perpetrator materializes in the realm of literature as one of the most inspiring.
