Romantic anxiety or anxiety of Romanticism? On Dziady by Paweł Goźliński
Romantic anxiety or anxiety of Romanticism? On Dziady by Paweł Goźliński

Summary/Abstract: Paweł Goźliński’s unusual crime story “inspired” by Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve has usually been interpreted as an accusation of Romanticism that keeps confusing the Poles with different national myths and causes them to exist on the verge of national madness. How- ever, an analysis of the motifs of fear and anxiety enables another interpretation – Romanti- cism regarded from this perspective seems to be the threshold of modernity that determines a modern way of thinking about human nature.

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