Między Opinogórą a Wilnem: miejsca autobiograficzne w młodzieńczej twórczości Zygmunta Krasińskiego i Juliusza Słowackiego
ENThe subject-matter of the book titled Between Opinogóra and Vilnius. Autobiographical Places in Zygmunt Krasińskie and Juliusz Słowackis Youth Works is a comparative interpretation of selected works by both poets in terms of the category of the autobiographical place, proposed by Małgorzata Czermińska, and other research tools developed by topographic turn and geopoetics. Autors center interest are two places mentioned in the title - Opinogóra and Vilnius - which became a source of inspiration for Krasiński and Słowacki in the earliest period of their literary work. First chapter of the book contains characteristics of the selected tools, developed by topographical turn and geopoetics, such as place, autobiographical place, imagined geography, relational geography or sensory geography, which are methodological base for the general interpretation of Krasiński s and Słowacki s works. Further text refers to spatial research on literature, highlighting the category of "thinking by a map" as a foundation of the romantic perception of the world. Autor also gives definition of Krasińskis and Słowackis "youth works", which he understands as works that were conceived before both poets left the Congress Poland. The next chapter deals with the interpretation of Zygmunt Krasiński s early short story titled Pan Trzech Pagórków (Lord of the Three Hills), which is set in Opinogóra, the poet s hometown. Author precedes the analysis of the work with a reconstruction of the historical relationship between the Krasiński family and Opinogóra, and also cites the most representative views on the analyzed story. The main subject of the chapter is analysis of the metatextual part of the story and poets correspondence, in which he mentions his past spent in Opinogóra.Reading Pan Trzech Pagórków through the lens of sensory and imaginary geography leads the author to the following conclusion: the analyzed text served as an autobiographical founding myth, being the first work in which Krasiński talked about his unusually strong and ambiguous relationship with his hometown, as well as complicated relationship with his father, whom he dedicated his work to. By expressing the above, author polemizes with the views of researchers who consider the story to be a manifestation of Krasiński s trauma. The third chapter discusses the question of disappearance of Opinogóra from Krasińskis work. Subject of the analysis are two works by the author of Non-Divine Comedy: a prose poem [Poland] and an epistolary Diary from a Trip to Geneva. As the cause of the problem discussed, author points to events from Krasińskis biography, and above all to the poets long-standing conflict with his father, who contributed to the removal of homeland - inspired motives from poet’s writings, as the family nest over time became an oppressive space to him. The last chapter of the work refers to the motive of Vilnius in Juliusz Slowacki's works. Author reconstructs the poets early biography, while pointing to its nomadic character and poor representation of threads inspired by topography of his hometown in the early works. Main subject of the analysis is the Warsaw period of poets biography and tragedy titled Mindowe, which takes place in Lithuania. Analyzing the reasons for Slowacki's return to inspirations taken from his hometown, author points to the fact that during his stay in Warsaw, the poet, observing the so-called "romanticists' fight with the classics", noticed the cultureforming role of his native Vilnius, which, through Adam Mickiewicz’s publication, became the birthplace of Polish romanticism.Following the intuition of Marek Troszyński, author defines Vilnius as a space associated in the poet’s imagination with the figure of father, both Mickiewicz as a spiritual father, as well as his biological father - Euzebiusz Słowacki - whose tragedy Mendog was a direct inspiration for writing Mindowe, the latter being a complex story of poet’s autobiographical place.
