%0 Journal Article %T Escape Into Straddleness. On the Experience of Social Advancement in the Dissimilation Mode in the Novel Majdan by Marian Pilot %A Koprowska, Karolina %J Wielogłos %V 2023 %R 10.4467/2084395XWI.23.012.18190 %N Issue 2 (56) 2023 Chłopskość: rewizje %P 83-99 %K village, birthplace, social advancement, identity, dissimilation, Marian Pilot %@ 1897-1962 %D 2023 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/ucieczka-w-rozkracznosc-o-doswiadczeniu-awansu-w-trybie-dysymilacyjnym-w-powiesci-majdan-mariana-pilota %X The article sets out to investigate the experience of social advancement in the dissimilation mode, which is contrary to the assimilation. The process of becoming non-identical and affirming one’s distinctiveness is examined in reference to the novel Majdan by Marian Pilot, one of the authors of the so-called peasant current in the Polish literature. The term “rozkraczność” (“straddle-ness”) taken from Pilot’s prose is used to describe the condition of a displaced subject as persistence in a state of ambivalence between heteronomy and autonomy.