%0 Journal Article
%T Legend of the Male-Faced Saint in Crucified Woman by Jakub Arbes and House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
%J STUDIA PHILOLOGICA
%D 2017
%X 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
%K Saint Wilgefortis^ Jakub Arbes^ Olga Tokarczuk^ female crucifix^ androgynous icon
%U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/studiaphilologica/eng/vol36/iss1/31