Obraz protestantyzmu w prozie Jerzego Pilcha

The image of Protestantism in Jerzy Pilch’s prose The article contains an analysis of Jerzy Pilch’s work and focuses on the leitmotif of his work, which is Protestantism. He reviews the presence of Evangelical motifs at various levels of the literary text – in lexicon, topics, and also at the level of axiology. The author of the text suggests to recognize a different truthfulness of the portrait of Polish Protestantism. Not literal, but literary truth, which is hidden under stylistic clues such as hyperbole (exaggeration) or periphrase (extensive discussion). It gives the aesthetic pleasure of reading combined with a cognitive experience.