Postać Marka Jakimowskiego w literaturze wieku dziewiętnastego
A person of Marek Jakimowski in the 19th — century literature

Author(s): Renata Ryba
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The text concerns a literary career of a person of Marek Jakimowski, a nobleman from Podole,who after the battle of Cecora (1620), was in the Turkish captivity and forced to work. He managedto free himself, attacking the Turkish ship with his co‑prisoners. His heroic action was popular‑ised in the form of the occasional print, first in the Italian language, and then in a Polish transla‑tion: Opisanie krótkie zdobycia galery za sprawą Marka Jakimowskiego (1628). Jakimowski’s fate,known exclusively from Opisanie krótkie…, became an inspiration for several 19th — century writ‑ers: Konstanty Majeranowski, Aleksander Groza and Hipolit Świejkowski. The very authors noticedthe attractiveness of the very topic from before two centuries to express the present problems con‑nected with a post‑partitional political situation of Poland, in line with literary conventions at thattime. Accordingly, Jakimowski, in Majeranowski’s work became a sentimental knight, in Groza’spoem a Romantic fighter for freedom while in a rhymed realization of an emigrant writer, i.e.Świejkowski, he personalizes the myth of an old chivalrous Poland.

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