Oko, okulary, autografy – przyczynki do historii literackiej Zygmunta Krasińskiego

• Authors: Winek Teresa

Title variants

EN

An Eye, Glasses, and Autographs: Contributions to the Literary History of Zygmunt Krasiński

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Early works by Zygmunt Krasiński were full of travel reports and descriptions of acknowledged landscapes. They demonstrate a particular visual sensitivity of the young writer. Starting in 1832 an eye disease prevented the development of this writing. The poet saddled with amblyopia wrote about his difficulty in letters to family and friends. The illness was treated by him as a psychosomatic – the effect of disturbances on the way between the eye and the heart that was wounded by the inability to participate in the November Uprising. The consequences of the disease (restrictions of social life, loneliness, inability to read) were recognised by Krasiński as circumstances conducive to intellectual work (in his writings the role of internal dialogue and philosophical debate systematically increased). The disease, however, imposed unnatural conditions on the writer’s work (the need for a secretary assistance), which limited the number of autographs, further reduced by the family in the course of organizing the family archive.

Keywords

PL

Zygmunt Krasiński; utrata wzroku; autografy Krasińskiego; powstanie listopadowe; romantyczne choroby

EN

Zygmunt Krasiński; amblyopia; Krasiński’s autographs; November Uprising

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski / Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Napis. Pismo poświęcone literaturze okolicznościowej i użytkowej
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 20
• Pages: 49-65

Contributors

author

Winek Teresa

• Instytut Badań Literackich PAN