FAMILY AND WRINKLES. CROSS-GENERATION RELATIONS IN THE POLISH NEWEST LITERATURE

Abstract

Old age and family are one of the most permanent and strongly exploited cultural motives. The article is about the literatural conceptualization of advantages and disadvantages of old age with microstructural family relations background. We will be interested in what extent the literature was being able to write down the senior’s transformations in family, determined by cultural and social stereotypes. We will show 3 faces of the old man: static sage-patriarch, anachronic/irritating fool and abandoned and unloved alien.