Wyobraźnia i pamięć w dyskursie autobiograficznym Słowackiego
Imagination and Memory in Juliusz Słowacki’s Autobiographic Discourse

Author(s): Lidia Romaniszyn-Ziomek
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: imagination; memory; autobiographic narrative; Juliusz Słowacki
Summary/Abstract: Autobiographic narratives by their nature are a sort of creation, in which a particular role is played by memory of events, places, people. The identity one builds in the course of self-narrativisation ultimately becomes a kind of construct, a literary creation, half real, half fictional, functioning in the eyes of posterity like a literary hero, sometimes even detached from biographical facts. The aim of the present sketch is to explore the character and form of the narrative very deliberately created by Słowacki, as well as the special role played in it by memory and imagination. The tale he tells about himself, composed of a variety of genres – from diary and letter, to small poetic forms – constitutes an image of the poet as a literary figure. In the present text, these forms have been limited to just a few, written in the poet’s early life, and formally related to autobiographic genres – namely "Pamiętnik" (“Diary”), "Życiorys ojca i własny" (“My Father’s Life and My Own”), as well as letters written by the poet to his mother.

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