Status grobowca i status Mogiły. Próba nekrohumanistycznej lektury fragmentów Nad Niemnem Elizy Orzeszkowej

In this article, I attempt a necro-humanistic reading of specific passages from Nad Niemnem by Eliza Orzeszkowa. These passages describe two burial sites: the tomb of Jan and Cecylia, the founders of the Bohatyrowicz family, and the grave of forty January Uprising insurgents. Numerous scholars of Nad Niemnem have attributed symbolic and formative significance to both the tomb of Jan and Cecylia and the grave of the insurgents for the novel’s characters and its readers. Some of these interpretations will be referenced in this article. I do not intend to challenge them but rather to complement them with a necro-humanistic perspective on the sections dedicated to the graves, drawing upon Ewa Domańska’s insights from her book Nekros. Wprowadzenie do ontologii martwego ciała. I begin by examining the importance of land as a resource for cultivation or animal husbandry for the inhabitants of Bohatyrowicze and Korczyn. This approach will highlight how Orzeszkowa differentiates between the narrative of the land that serves the living and the narrative of the land that houses the remains of the dead.