Pamięć i projekt kultury: "Król-Duch" Juliusza Słowackiego
Memory and the Project of Culture: Juliusz Słowacki’s "Król-Duch" (“The Spirit King”)

Author(s): Jarosław Mariusz Ławski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: The Spirit King; Juliusz Słowacki; culture; memory; reader; rhapsodist
Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyses “Rhapsody I” from Juliusz Słowacki’s long mystical poem "Król-Duch" (“The Spirit King”). Contrary to numerous, well-known, and established interpretations of the poem, this one does not pose questions concerning, e.g. its mystique, the ontology of the represented world, the poet’s vision, or his view of nature. Rather, it focuses on a set of other intriguing issues: What human culture does “The Spirit King” show? What cultural picture of the poet is suggested by Słowacki? And last but not least: what type of human culture is required from the reader of the mystical poem? In conclusion, it is argued that that “The Spirit King” demonstrates an escape from the framework of culture to explore the divine, “mystical world.”

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