PARIS (Paryz)

• Authors: Rutkowski Krzysztof
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Paris is a grand 'Book of Signs', a thing the great Frenchmen: Hugo, Balzac, de Nerval, Baudelaire - the thoughtful readers of the Book - knew well. Paris sucks poets into a whirl, affects their imagination and sensitivity, forces to contrive new genres of utterance. For Mickiewicz, Paris was infernal for it metaphorically assembled the whole evil, being the capital city of the world of those days. Mickiewicz, who had decided to fight evil and transform people, redeem the world and liberate Poland, became aware that Paris was the only place where to possibly take such actions - as it was the Book and the hell in one. Slowacki deemed Paris a reptile and a dragon, a living entity whose existence was independent of people's will. Paris formed Parisians, and Parisians lived the kind of life permitted by the dragon.

Keywords

EN

GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE; PARIS FOR MICKIEWICZ AND SLOWACKI; POLISH ROMANTICISM

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 4(112)
• Pages: 169-176
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Rutkowski Krzysztof

• Krzysztof Rutkowski, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA055924