„Na Ukrainie za owych dobrych czasów” – „Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska” Paulina Święcickiego

• Authors: Aneta Mazur

Title variants

‘In the Ukraine in the good old days’ – 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' by Paulin Święcicki

„Na Ukrainie za owych dobrych czasów” – „Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska” Paulina Święcickiego

„Na Ukrainie za owych dobrych czasów” – „Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska” Paulina Święcickiego

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

RU

The forgotten work and life of Paulin Święcicki (1841–1876), a writer from Kiev region and active in Galicia, represents a rare, authentic example of Polish‑Ukrainian cultural border. His debut work entitled 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' (1865), despite being an artistic failure, is an interesting link between the heritage of the Romantic 'Ukrainian School' and the historical vision of Polish Borderlands in With fire and sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The creation of the 17th‑century reality of Ukrainian grasslands (noble, rural and Cossack existence), battle scenes (fights against the Tatars), romantic‑melodramatic plot – these are all adapted to a unique Ukrainian (not Polish‑centred) perspective. Święcicki’s ‘ukrainism’ is a portrait of Cossack heroism, a picture of enslaving the Ukrainian nation, and a picturesque description of local stories. The eclectic character of the work, which is nostalgically contemplative and in romantic style, as well as journalistically engaged, has an impact on its incoherence, but also makes it original against the background of the Sarmatian‑borderland fiction of those days.  

EN

The forgotten work and life of Paulin Święcicki (1841–1876), a writer from Kiev region and active in Galicia, represents a rare, authentic example of Polish‑Ukrainian cultural border. His debut work entitled 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' (1865), despite being an artistic failure, is an interesting link between the heritage of the Romantic 'Ukrainian School' and the historical vision of Polish Borderlands in With fire and sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The creation of the 17th‑century reality of Ukrainian grasslands (noble, rural and Cossack existence), battle scenes (fights against the Tatars), romantic‑melodramatic plot – these are all adapted to a unique Ukrainian (not Polish‑centred) perspective. Święcicki’s ‘ukrainism’ is a portrait of Cossack heroism, a picture of enslaving the Ukrainian nation, and a picturesque description of local stories. The eclectic character of the work, which is nostalgically contemplative and in romantic style, as well as journalistically engaged, has an impact on its incoherence, but also makes it original against the background of the Sarmatian‑borderland fiction of those days.

DE

The forgotten work and life of Paulin Święcicki (1841–1876), a writer from Kiev region and active in Galicia, represents a rare, authentic example of Polish‑Ukrainian cultural border. His debut work entitled 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' (1865), despite being an artistic failure, is an interesting link between the heritage of the Romantic 'Ukrainian School' and the historical vision of Polish Borderlands in With fire and sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The creation of the 17th‑century reality of Ukrainian grasslands (noble, rural and Cossack existence), battle scenes (fights against the Tatars), romantic‑melodramatic plot – these are all adapted to a unique Ukrainian (not Polish‑centred) perspective. Święcicki’s ‘ukrainism’ is a portrait of Cossack heroism, a picture of enslaving the Ukrainian nation, and a picturesque description of local stories. The eclectic character of the work, which is nostalgically contemplative and in romantic style, as well as journalistically engaged, has an impact on its incoherence, but also makes it original against the background of the Sarmatian‑borderland fiction of those days.  

Keywords

PL

Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); szkoła ukraińska; Kozacy; kresy; powieść historyczna; Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); szkoła ukraińska; Kozacy; kresy; powieść historyczna

DE

Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); the Ukrainian School; Cossacks; the Borderlands; historical novel

EN

Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); the Ukrainian School; Cossacks; the Borderlands; historical novel; Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); the Ukrainian School; Cossacks; the Borderlands; historical novel

RU

Paulin Święcicki (Stachurski); the Ukrainian School; Cossacks; the Borderlands; historical novel

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
• Journal: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Historicolitteraria
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 209-221

Dates

published

2020-12-20

Contributors

author

Aneta Mazur

• Uniwersytet Opolski

References

• Bujnicki T., Ewolucja polskiej powieści historycznej (do Trylogii), [w:] tegoż, Sienkiewicz i historia. Studia, Warszawa 1981, s. 44–86.
• Kaszewski K., Przegląd piśmienniczy, „Bluszcz” 1865/1866, nr 40, s. 2–4.
• Narodowcy i radykali ruscy, „Kurier Lwowski” 1891, nr 322, s. 2.
• Paulin Święcicki, „Gazeta Narodowa” 1876, nr 213, s. 1–2.
• Stachurski [Święcicki] P., "Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska", Lwów 1865.
• Szkoła ukraińska w romantyzmie polskim. Szkice polsko‑ukraińskie, red. S. Makowski, U. Makowska i M. Nesteruk, Warszawa 2012.
• Świerczyńska D., Paulin Święcicki. Dramat pisarza pogranicza, „Pamiętnik Literacki” 1996, z. 1, s. 199–212.
• Tretiak J., Paulin Święcicki i jego niewydane dramata, „Tydzień Literacki, Artystyczny, Naukowy i Społeczny” 1878, nr 39, s. 33–34, nr 40, s. 49–50.
• Wójcicki J., Powstaniec styczniowy i „chłopoman”. Paulin Święcicki (1841–1876), http://slowopolskie.org/powstaniec-styczniowy-i-chopoman-paulin-wicicki-1841-1876/(dostęp: 27.07.2019).

Identifiers

DOI

10.24917/20811853.20.13