Portrety Juliusza Słowackiego w prozie biograficznej 1945–1981
Juliusz Słowacki’s Portraits in Polish 1945–1981 Biographical Prose

Summary/Abstract: Starting point of the considerations on Juliusz Słowacki’s portraits in biographical prose is a set of the poet’s fine arts images. This concept, known in Western literary studies as „Künstlerroman” or „portrait of the artist novel,” offers a framework for the presentation of Słowacki’s images in 1945–1981 biographical fiction. The first stage of narrations about Słowacki is made up by socialist realism books, namely “classicizing” picture by Paweł Hertz, and Mieczysław Jastrun’s “Spotkanie z Salomeą (A Meeting with Salomea)”, the latter being an example of the romantic poet’s image overuse. Next, Stefan Flukowski’s “Płomień róży (Flame of a Rose)” is an attempt at a revision of Słowacki’s traditional picture. By contrast, Jan Dobraczyński’s novel “Pacierz, co płacze, i piorun, co błyska (Prayer that cries and lightning that flashes)” exemplifies an ideological use of Słowacki’s picture according to the principles of national democracy.

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