Motywy krzemienieckie w twórczości Słowackiego
Motives of Krzemieniec in Słowacki’s Writings

Summary/Abstract: What made the pictures of Krzemieniec rich and varied were the picturesque landscape, characteristic architecture and the culture of the urban society, not homogenic ethnically,as it comes to customs or religion. In Godzina myśli (The Hour of Thoughts) and in lyrical poems motives of mountains, water, as well as floral ones create an idyllic landscape, making Krzemieniec a mythical Arcadia of childhood. In Kordian, the tale of Grzegorz’s about Janek who made shoes for dogs, enhances moral values of a motive excerpted from a folk tale about a castle on Bona’s Mountain, inhabited by devils. Then again, in Złota Czaszka and in the so-called fragments about Heliasz, the picture of Krzemieniec obtains universal qualities. Motives describing the society and the urban topography make it the figure of all the Republic of Poland, whose citizens are ready to fight for freedom or to realize the genesian plan of salvation. The motives of Krzemieniec are composed into clear picture-semantic lines. The Volynian town is once an idealized space of happiness, then it hides in the vagueness of tales and legend, to finally become the Polish Republic in a micro scale.

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