„Kiedyś całą tę powieść Ci opowiem”. Listy Zygmunta Krasińskiego w perspektywie narratologicznej
“One time, I will tell you the whole story.” Zygmunt Krasiński’s Letters through the Narratorial Perspective

Summary/Abstract: The article proposes to look at the correspondence of Zygmunt Krasiński from the perspective of narratology. The starting point for the discussion is Paul Ricoeur’s thesis, according to which the transfer of his own existence can be overcome only by developing the appropriate framework for the story. The poet, therefore, is presented here as homo narrator, who, with the help of cultural codes derived from literature, consciously builds his portraits in his letters. The examination material is excerpts from Krasiński’s correspondence with Delfina Potocka, Henry Reeve, and Adam Soltan – on this basis, the subsequent roles adopted by the narrator are presented. The figure of an old man, bodily ruins, and Werther and Hamlet’s costumes are only exemplary forms of the narrative, created by the poet, talking about himself to correspondents. In the light of the article, the poet appears as 'homo legens', endowed with immense erudition, reaching for specific schemes in order to rationalize his own experience. The conclusions drawn from the text also allow one to distance oneself from the opinions found in literature concerning the correspondence of the poet – treating autocreation already there as a manifestation of romantic dandyism and buffoonery.

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