W żywiole ironii… O bohaterach Soli ziemi Józefa Wittlina

The essay is devoted to an ironic construction of the protagonists in Sól ziemi (Salt of the Earth) by Józef Wittlin. The author discusses the method in which the main characters in the novel were created. He pays utmost attention to three of them: Piotr Niewiadomski, Rudolf Bachmatiukow and the emperor Franciszek Józef. According to Wocław, irony as a specific foundation of the texturing allows Wittlin to say more, write additional senses into the novel’s content. Their co-author is the reader, who – due to the presence of irony – constantly evaluates the characters and events from the world depicted. In such a way, the intensified moralistic dimension of Salt of the Earth is being created