Kim była Sandomierzanka? Nowe fakty w sprawie sporu o „Podolankę wychowaną w stanie natury” Michała Dymitra Krajewskiego
Who Was Sandomierzanka? New Facts in the Dispute over Michał Dymitr Krajewski’s “Podolanka wychowana w stanie natury” (“Podolanka Brought up in Natural State”)

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to “List Sandomierzanki do Podolanki w stanie natury wychowanej” (“Letter of Sandomierzanka to Podolanka Brought up in Natural State,” 1784), a critical text that belongs to one of the most crucial literary polemics of the Polish Enlightenment. The review of Michał Dymitr Krajewski’s novel, whose authorship is contestable, touched such issues as a definition of the state of nature, or an evaluation of the genre of the novel and literary achievement of the epoch. The discovery at the Manuscripts Department, Vilnius University, allowed to formulate a new argument for assigning “Letter of Sandomierzanka” to Filip Neriusz Golański. Additionally, the article analyses the theses about the authorship of the text in question to this day and presents argumentation that provides for settling the problem. In the next step, it examines the core problem, namely it compares the creativity of Ignacy Krasicki and of Adam Naruszewicz, and ultimately juxtaposes Sandomierzanka’s theses with Golański’s papers known to date.

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