Legend of the Male-Faced Saint in Crucified Woman by Jakub Arbes and House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk

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This text analyses and compares the paraphrased legend of saint Wilgefortis (known as the Saint with a Beard) in the two selected novels. Arbes’s novel (romanetto) contains a paraphrase that implies a correspondence between the mysterious and the rational and point to a description of human violence during the war. In Tokarczuk’s novel the story of saint Wilgefortis encodes the problem of transsexual identity and transvestism in a philosophical and psychological context.

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Saint Wilgefortis, Jakub Arbes, Olga Tokarczuk, female crucifix, androgynous icon

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