REMARKS TO MARYLA'S BIOGRAPHY IN LIGHT OF A RECENTLY FOUND DOCUMENT (Uwagi do biografii Maryli w swietle odnalezionego dokumentu)

• Authors: Samborska-Kukuc Dorota
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Issues of the biography of Maria Puttkamer, née Wereszczak, who was Adam Mickiewicz's calf love, aroused literary historians' interest due to interrelations of Maryla's biography with that of the Polish Bard. In particular, efforts were made to reconcile her family life - the marriage and children - with her staying faithful to the poet, by e.g. suggesting that a 'white marriage' between them was the case. In the face of a document that has been found (and confirmed the presumption regarding Maryla's first-born child, based on works by certain scholars and biographers), i.e. the birth-certificate of the Puttkamers' eldest daughter of 1823, the reader's reception of Ms. Puttkamer's correspondence with Mickiewicz, Tomasz Zan and Jan Czeczot changes and gets modified, to an extent. The numerous allusions, confessions and suggestions contained in these letters gain a meaning that has been hidden until very recently.

Keywords

EN

BIOGRAPHY.; MICKIEWICZ ADAM; POLISH LITERATURE (19TH C.); PUTTKAMER MARIA

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 3(117)
• Pages: 218-233
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Samborska-Kukuc Dorota

• Dorota Samborska-Kukuc, Uniwersytet Lódzki, Katedra Literatury Pozytywizmu i Mlodej Polski, ul. T. Kosciuszki 65, 90-514 Lódz, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA067027