The study aims to contribute to research on the onomastic-stylistic diversity of Polish prose in the late 20th century. In focus are those onomastic properties of literature that reveal connections between names and language in the process of creating non-mimetic, literary-style fiction. These properties also point to the nature of proper names as they function in a literary work of art — that work being a post-modern intellectual-literary game. The names used in the novel (anthroponyms, toponyms, chrematonyms, also zoonyms) mainly derive from the author’s linguistic creativity: they contribute to the world-view projected through the text. That world-view is “purposefully and totally unusual”, different from the real world.

Marine casualties, at sea or in port waters, are not only caused by large passenger or cargo vessels, which, due to their size, may have difficulty in giving way or stopping safely, but also small vessels such as marine yachts or jet skis, which have a high manoeuvrability but mistakes made when navigating or manoeuvring by the operators of these vessels can be serious. The aim of this article is to analyze the collision of two such crafts in port waters in the aspect of criminal liability of the perpetrator of the accident for causing it.