Juliusza Słowackiego "Sen srebrny Salomei": dwie prawdy
"Sen srebrny Salomei" by Juliusz Słowacki: Two Truths

Author(s): Rościsław Radyszewski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Juliusz Słowacki; Poland; Confederation of Bar; Haydamak rebellion; Polish-Ukrainian conflict; historiosophic mystical plan
Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the drama of the last period of the artistic creativity by Juliusz Slowacki – "Sen srebrny Salomei" (“The Silver Dream of Salomea”), which focuses on the Polish-Ukrainian conflict of the Confederation of Bar and Haydamak rebellion’s times. The focus is on the discrepancy by different researchers of the dramatic symbolic scenes and images in the context of antagonism of Wernyhorа, the prophet of the Polish-Ukrainian union, Semenko, the leader of the peasants’ uprising, and Sawа in his triple hypostasеs of “Lіakh, Kozak and the Devil”. Both the peasant community and the noble Confederates express their own “truth” in the struggle for freedom and faith. For Juliusz Słowacki, Ukraine with its freedom-loving history is inscribed in the historiosophic truth-identifying mystical plan of Poland’s transformation on the path of perfected freedom, when true “will of the spirit” therefore is born in agony, in pain.

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