Literacka realizacja starofrancuskiej legendy o Grzegorzu na kamieniu w powieści Wybraniec Tomasza Manna

In the article I investigate intertextual connections to specific literary codes and myths, that are a subject of intertextual game in the novel The Chosen. I point out that created by Thomas Mann hero and world which surrounds him is not so unique as in mythical story by Hartman von Aue. The writer decided - reffering to words of Harold Bloom- to perform a creative correction of a hagiographic legend. Despite a mocking relation to the literary origin- as I was proving- he did not questioned Christian values.