„już ostygł w poezji” – „Nienawidzę go” – „podałem mu rękę – i teraz jesteśmy razem” Mickiewicz w listach Słowackiego
“has already faded in poetry,” “I despise him,” “I put out a hand to him – and now we’re together” Mickiewicz in the letters of Słowacki

Author(s): Albert Walczak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the image of Adam Mickiewicz which is contained in thecorrespondence of Juliusz Słowacki. The publication demonstrates that Słowacki’s attitude toward Mickiewicz underwent a constant evolution. At the beginning the young poet sought understanding with the “first bard” exclusively in the field of literature; he wanted to learn Mickiewicz’s opinion about his work and to meet him. However, in the subsequent years Słowacki indulged in more and more daring comments (also in ones which went beyond the sphere of literature) in reference to the creator of Pan Tadeusz and at the same time he desired to level the literary distance between them. What is important is that in Słowacki’s epistolography there is reflected a dramatic change which the poet underwent in reference to the acquaintance with the ideological programme of the Koło Sprawy Bożej, which also influenced the relation of the “second bard” with Mickiewicz. Moreover, the article also directs the reader’s attention to the ways in which Słowacki’s statements about Mickiewicz are constructed, inter alia about the careful choice of vocabulary and the peculiar arrangements of passages concerning the adversary against the background of a given letter.

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