Obraz Matki Bożej Kodeńskiej w powieści Zofii Kossak-Szczuckiej "Beatum scelus"

• Authors: Mokranowska Zdzisława

Title variants

EN

The Painting of the Mother of God of Kodeń in the Novel by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka "Beatum scelus"

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author of the article analyses the first novel of Zofia Kossak entitled Beatum scelus that was written in 1923 and compares it with its later version, much more extended and changed, entitled Błogosławiona wina [Blessed guilt], which appeared in 1953. The central theme of the novel covers the history of the image of the Gregorian Mother of God, later referred to as the Mother of God of Kodeń, which was stolen from the papal chapel by Mikołaj Sapieha, the province governor of Brzeg, during his pilgrimage to Rome and then transported to the Podlasie region, to Kodeń. The world presented in Beatum scelus oscillates around a historical and hagiographical legend; it is a theological project of literary activities. This novel is also a religious novel, because the author touches here some significant aspects of faith in respect of guilt and punishment, conflict of conscience and the problem of compensation. And it is the earliest and present history of the painting of the Madonna of Kodeń that provides the basis for those reflections. For the purpose of artistic creation, the author mixes here the facts that were written down in sources and in legends. The post-war version of the novel extends the frames of the painting and plastically reveals the aspects of life in Poland in the 17th century: customs, political relations, social relations and a critical description of the reality present in the Vatican and in the church. When comparing the texts of both novels it should be stated, that the brevity of the first version finds its direct reflection in the clarity of the thesis; the pragmatics and magnitude of the Marian worship – Błogosławiona wina achieves a greater literary quality due to its elaborated plots, but at the same time loses its ideological explicitness.

Keywords

EN

painting of the Mother of God of Kodeń; novel "Beatum scelus" by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2010, nr 2 (15)
• Pages: 107-118

Dates

published

2010-10

Contributors

author

Mokranowska Zdzisława

• Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Bankowa 12, 40-007 Katowice

References

• Z. Kossak-Szczucka, Beatum scelus, Górki Wielkie 1923.
• J. Jankowski, „Beatum scelus” Zofii Kossak, „Dziennik Polski” 1924, nr 282.
• W. Lutosławski, Listy o literaturze. Z powodu powieści Zofii Kossak Szczuckiej „Beatum scelus”, „Tygodnik Ilustrowany” 1924, nr 20.
• Z. Kossak, Błogosławiona wina, Warszawa 1958.
• Monumenta albo Zebranie starożytnych ozdób Przenajświętszej Bogarodzicy Kodeńskiej, tłum. A. Stawski, Warszawa 1723.

Identifiers

ISSN

1731-3317