Ukraina Mariana Maciejewskiego
Marian Maciejewski's Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The image of Ukraine that is present in Marian Maciejewski's works consists of his research experiences gathered in the course of his academic career, as well as of his work in the Neocatechumenate. His academic work from the beginning was connected with intensive reflection on the literature of Polish Romanticism, whose cradle was, among others, Ukraine. His studies of works by Karol Brzozowski, and then by Antoni Malczewski and Juliusz Słowacki made Ukrainian landscapes gain profound historico-literary and structural justification; and in further works they became the subject of hermeneutic and kerygmatic interpretations. Ukraine accompanied the scholar when he was searching for his academic and didactic way, whose aim was to conduct interpretative actions till the end, and ultimately − going beyond the text, finding the existential truth about the man in it. Studying poetic landscapes lead to grasping features of the “sunny Jerusalem” in them, and so to a complete integration of Maciejewski's subject of literary research with the man being in full unity with God.

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