Przybyszewski czyta Mickiewicza
PRZYBYSZEWSKI READS MICKIEWICZ

Author(s): Ewa Hoffmann-Piotrowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Stanisław Przybyszewski; reception of Romanticism; Neoromanticism; naked soul; mystics and mysticism
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the issue of how Przybyszewski – one of the most remarkable representatives of Young Poland movement – responded to Mickiewicz’s literary creation. The artist approached Mickiewcz’s literary work in a very subjective, self-identifying and interventional manner, which gives evidence as to what type of a person Przybyszewski, the author of Dzieci Szatana [Satan’s Children], was. On the basis of how Przybyszewski translated Mickiewicz’s notion of a ‘naked soul’, which he eventually adopted and recognised as one of the primary ideological and aesthetic categories, I intend to present Przybyszewski’s attitude to the legacy of Romanticism.

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