Wschodniogalicyjskie Podkarpacie Juliusza Turczyńskiego – portret „z niedalekiej przeszłości”
Eastern Galician Subcarpathia of Juliusz Turczyński – a portrait from ”the recent past”

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the images of rural life in Subcarpathian regions of the 19th century Eastern Galicia, recorded in sociocultural, quasi chronicle, or memoir prose of Juliusz Turczyński (1833–1913). This gymnasium professor and a well known writer connected with Stanisławów achieved his greatest success as the author of novellas and short stories. His socio cultural, ethno graphic and landscape sketches dedicated to Hutsul Land, which record the traditional life of the region, disappearing because of modern trends, belong to the most important literary testimonies of life and mentality of the 19th century Carpathian Highlanders. His less popular, but equally interesting dramatized sociological studies, illustrate the situation of Eastern Galician village in the serfdom era that has recently passed. Turczyński’s prose, which is rather conventional and schematic in terms of artistic creation, combines the objective features of a document – the testimony of the mechanisms determining and destroying the life of a simple man – with the elements of didactic morality and parabolic vision of a lively character of the people, prone to fall, but also to convert.

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