{Pan Tadeusz}, czyli „antyksiążka”
{Pan Tadeusz} as an "antibook"

Summary/Abstract: The essay entitled “Pan Tadeusz” as an “antibook” was thought as a detailed consideration of books, reading and the relationship between “World” and “Library” (in a symbolic meaning). Mickiewicz’s {Pan Tadeusz}, the great epic poem describes the life of Polish gentry in the country. The protagonists of this masterpiece read cookery-books, newspapers, pamphlets, poems and others. It is very interesting that Tadeusz Soplica, a positive character, does not read a lot. The erudite persons are the foreigners (for example Buchman) or the adherents of foreign customs (for example Telimena and Hrabia). According to Mickiewicz, the real wisdom proceeds from “oral” tradition, not from “prints”.

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