Bez wyjścia? O zagubieniu aksjologicznym bohaterów dziecięcych i młodzieżowych (na wybranych przykładach twórczości Ewy Przybylskiej, Barbary Kosmowskiej)

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Without the Choice? On the Loss of Axiological Heroes of Children and Youth Literature (on Selected Examples of the Work of Ewa Przybylska and Barbara Kosmowska)

Article concerns problems of „new character” which appears in literature of the end of XX and the beginning of XXI centuries and is rooted in the phenomenon of young „generation of nobody” and show rich psychological portraits of protagonists. Contemporary Polish prose, which is not optimistic anymore, show anthropological sensitivity, is called a literature of initiation, present a young protagonists in a labyrinth of values, whose life seems to be suffering, they are lost in reality, lonely, looking for answers of difficult existential questions, looking for the true, friendship and love. Most significant literary examples which present problems mentioned above and which are rooted in the wide context of ethics - are works of Ewa Przybylska: Dzień kolibra (1997) i Dotyk motyla (2016) and Most na Missisipi (2012) and Barbara Kosmowska: Pozłacana rybka (2007),Sezon na zielone kasztany (2013) and Samotni.pl(2012). Most of these texts could be discussed also in educational perspective.