Reytan. Lekcja ciemności, która wraca echem żywym

• Authors: Ostasz Gustaw

Title variants

EN

Reytan. The lesson on darkness which returns as a living echo

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The plot of Rymkiewicz’s Reytan. Upadek Polski (Warsaw 2012) about the close of the 18th century in Poland is full of digressions on our times. This tale-essay written by a learned philologist and poet is about history which is being revived here and now. Tadeusz Reytan’s mosaic biography is presented by a detective narration which is not free from doubts deliberately raised by the author, who revives various documents and iconographic materials, above all Matejko’s painting-allegory Upadek Polski. Their significances have an effect on our history; they are the source of our anxieties which we fail to dispose of. The author-polymath has acquired in the internal world of this plot the status of the major element. He is prone to putting forward hypotheses and spins a fragmentary, unformed and open tale. He reveals his own thinking about the past and its echoes in the present. Our today and the 18th century yesterday create a marriage that is impossible to separate. They worry us and evoke the shape of tomorrow. ‘From St. Petersburg to Smolensk an icy wind is still blowing’.

Keywords

PL

Rymkiewicz; Reytan; Rzeczpospolita; historia

EN

Rymkiewicz; Reytan; The Republic of Poland; history

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Rzeszowski. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego
• Journal: Tematy i Konteksty
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 5(10)
• Pages: 402-407

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Ostasz Gustaw

• Uniwersytet Rzeszowski

Identifiers

ISSN

2299-8365