Echa i tęsknoty romantyczne w polskiej kulturze współczesnej. „Opowieści galicyjskie” Andrzeja Stasiuka, „Prawiek” Olgi Tokarczuk oraz „Świteź” Kamila Polaka w poetyce „Ballad i romansów” Adama Mickiewicza
Memories and Romantic Yearnings in Polish Contemporary Culture. Andrzej Stasiuk’s “Opowieści galicyjskie” (“Galician Tales”), Olga Tokarczuk’s “Prawiek” (“Primeval And Other Times”) and Kamil Polak’s “Świteź” (“The Lost Town of Świteź”) in the Poetic

Summary/Abstract: Memories, atmosphere and artistic tricks of Romanticism are discernible in the creativity of a number of contemporary Polish writers. The authors of the article point at such romantic yearnings in some books by Andrzej Stasiuk, Olga Tokarczuk, as well as in movies by Jan Komasa and by Kamil Polak. The object of interpretation are references to the Romantic sensual and imagination discovered in the mentioned creativity. The analysis was carried out by simultaneous reading these Romantic works, the context of whose seemed close to the modern ones. The authors attempt to settle the problem of the mode the Romantic heritage is present in contemporary cultural texts and analyse the judgements formulated on the subject in the last few dozens of years. The paper is a record of a discussion held at one of a cycle of seminars within the research project carried out by professor Marta Piwińska at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

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