"INCONVENIENT FOR THE AUTHORITY" POETIC WORKS OF ANTONI GORECKI Cover Image

"Niewygodna dla władzy" twórczość poetycka Antoniego Goreckiego
"INCONVENIENT FOR THE AUTHORITY" POETIC WORKS OF ANTONI GORECKI

Author(s): Jolanta Kowal
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
Keywords: Antoni Gorecki; bajka; cenzura; język ezopowy; Litwa; poezja; recepcja literatury; Uniwersytet Wileński; Aesopian language; censorship; fable; Lithuania; literary reception; poetry; Vilnius University

Summary/Abstract: Literary work of Antoni Gorecki essentially resembles so-called occasional literature. The poet repeatedly made comments about the current political and social events by the use of a pen. He wrote political fables which were his real predilection and brought him the most popularity. This genre, by the frequent use of the so-called Aesopian language, created the opportunity to smuggle content inconvenient for the tsarism. Not always, however, did the poet manage to avoid a conflict with the censorship. As a result, he was even imprisoned. Significantly, Gorecki’s work was censored even after his death, as the examples can be found in the Writings of Leipzig collected editions of 1877 and 1886.

  • Issue Year: 12/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-30
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish
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