Recenzja: Wyobraźnia a biografia. Młody Słowacki i ciągi dalsze. [Gdańsk 2006]
A review of: Wyobraźnia a biografia. Młody Słowacki i ciągi dalsze. [Gdańsk 2006]

Summary/Abstract: Analysing Kwiryna Ziemba’s book "Wyobraźnia a biografia. Młody Słowacki i ciągi dalsze", the reviewer stresses that Ziemba’s one of the most basic methodological assumptions is a struggle to mingle analysis and interpretation of literary works with biography of their author. The researcher suggests a new and original insight into Juliusz Słowacki. It is well supported by the concept of durability of some biographic narrations in the artist’s life and literary creativity. Ziemba makes an important turn when she highly apprises the artistic values of Słowacki’s juvenilia. The central part of the paper is devoted to a study on A Journey from Naples to the Holy Land, which is comprehensive and unflinching, and sheds a new light on a number of deeply hidden meanings to the still underread masterpiece of Polish romanticism. A piquant essay on Słowacki’s late creativity closes the book in question. The author sketches here a portrait of a mature artist, and a philosophical and theological poet.

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