„Epitafijum Hannie Kochanowskiej” jako tekstowa podstawa destruktywnej reinterpretacji „Trenów”
“Epitafijum Hannie Kochanowskiej” (“Epitaph for Hanna Kochanowska”) as a Textual Basis for Destructive Reinterpretation of “Treny” (“Laments”)

Summary/Abstract: “Epitafijum Hannie Kochanowskiej” (“Epitaph for Hanna Kochanowska”) preserves its double status: though it does not belong to “Treny” (“Laments”), the piece feedbacks it and sheds such light on it that changes its meaning. What is meant is that the epitaph dedicated to Hanna allows to challenge the “conforming” significance of the cycle. Rationalisation of the father’s second tragedy verbalised by the epitaph is a condensed manifesto of a passive stance: from this moment Kochanowski will conceive of his earthly life only as a passive struggle leading to death. Return to despair is linked with its lifelong experience. Destructive reinterpretation of “Treny” (“Laments”) was immanently formulated by Kochanowski himself, though to this day researchers have unnoticed by. Why? Because it ultimately denied the optimistic significance of the cycle read intrinsically and at the same time perceived as isolated from its epitaphial complement.

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