Adam Mickiewicz – słowiański improwizator
ADAM MICKIEWICZ – THE SLAVIC IMPROVISER

Author(s): Zbigniew Kaźmierczyk
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: improvisation; theological dualism; Slavdom; Black God; transformation
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Mickiewicz’s understanding of what improvisation is – not only a display of rhetorical dexterity but also a speech inspired by God. The article presents a poet who was a personification of a Slavic improviser who, struck by an inspiration, spoke in a Slavic manner of a historic discord deep inside the Slavdom. The author of this article points out that Mickiewicz, composing his improvisations, embodied a mental Slav as he submitted to religious dualism which was based on a belief that promoted equality between the autogenous, perennial and independent principles of Good and Evil and what is more, proclaimed the reign of an evil Tsar-like God or the Slavic peoples’ Black God over the world or Russia.

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