"Niesamowity dwór" Zbigniewa Nienackiego − między zagadką a tajemnicą

Abstract

The article by Beata Mytych-Forajter Niesamowity dwór by Zbigniew Nienacki – between a riddle and a mystery, is a proposal for reading one of the novels from the series about Pan Samochodzik (Mr. Automobile). The subject of interest became the unsolvable dilemma between the construction of a detective novel, operating a convention consisting of clues, riddles, false and true clues, andhigher-order mysteries, such as the afterlife, the possibility of contact with the dead, the spiritual dimensionof the world. As a result of the analysis, it turns out that Nienacki’s novel, despite its strong connection with the convention of detective fiction, also leaves the reader with a considerable amount of unsolvable mystery situated close to the psychoanalytic way of thinking about the human psyche.