„Trawka Hioba” (glosa do Kraszewskiego)
Job’s Grass (a Gloss to J.I. Kraszewski)

Summary/Abstract: Suggested is one of the ways of arranging Józef-Ignacy Kraszewski’s novels into cycles. It is based on mottos, citations and allusions. The mottos from the Book of Job are used in the following works: ‘Pamiętniki nieznajomego’ (1847), ‘Sfinks’ (1854), ‘Hymny boleści’ (1857) and in ‘Powieść bez tytułu’. Quotations from the Book of Job can be encountered in these same works as well as in the novels ‘Choroby wieku’ and ‘Dwa światy’. Mottos from the Bible appear in the novels: ‘Tomko Prawdzic’, ‘Kordecki’, ‘Dwa światy’, ‘Choroby wieku’, ‘Boża czeladka’. All this leads the article’s author to the conclusion that in 1840s/1850s, Kraszewski was creating an ethical system that reconciled Platonism, Hegelianism and Christianity whilst propagating the attitude of valiant virtue and submissiveness toward one’s lot.

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