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Skromny i staranny. Wybrane zagadnienia warsztatu pisarskiego Kazimierza Sarneckiego, rezydenta Karola Stanisława Radziwiłła na dworze Jana III Sobieskiego

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Ślęczka T.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

2017

issue 5

61-79

The purpose of this article is to discuss the methods which Kazimierz Sarnecki employed to convince his principal, Karol Stanisław Radziwił, of his suitability as a resident at the court of King Jan III Sobieski. In the collection of Sarnecki’s writing strategies, aimed at winning the principal’s goodwill, we find affected modesty, numerous acknowledgements and praises directed to the recipient of his accounts, and an array of procedures calculated to create the effect of extreme diligence; in order to show it, our author will theatrically accentuate his own zeal in the service (which I call affected modesty), multiply the details and anecdotes, emphasise his certainty resulting from the acquired messages and situations being eye-witnessed, point to the wide circle of the court informants from different spheres, and point out what difficulties he encountered in his principal’s service. These procedures have proven to be effective.

„Ale ponieważ postanowiłem, jak długo będę żył, przekazywać na piśmie…”. Żądza pisania i jej maski w staropolskich pamiętnikach

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Ślęczka T.

Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne

2013

issue 2(4)

99-118

The subject-matter of the work is an overview of the ways the authors of Old-Polish noble memoirs justified the reasons of writing down their memories. A basic difficulty was a conventionalization of this type of declaration, strongly ingrained in author’s awareness on the one hand and subjectivity as well as autocreation typical of any type of egodocuments on the other. Particular memorists pointed to the willingness to inform about the current course of events (although distinctions between the public affairs, understood as a dimension of history, and private ones, constituting the subject of interest was usually rigoristically perceived), a defense of their of their own behaviour in the situation when they had to make morally ambiguous choices, the need to teach their successors about the right ways of gaining the property, God’s grace, curiosity of the world or, finally, manifestation of the native proud. All these reasons, udoubtedly important, could also serve as a peculiar mask behind which the willingness to commemorate the memory about oneself, history and achievements common to everyone.

L’objectif de l’étude est la revision des raisons pour lesquelles les auteurs des journeaux intimes de l’époque de l’ancienne Pologne justifiaient la rédaction de leurs mémoires. La difficulté principale consiste d’un côté à une conventionnalisation très enracinée dans la conscience des auteurs de ce type de déclaration, et de l’autre la subjectivité et l‘autocréation, propres à tout ego-document de ce type. Les mémorialistes démontrent la volonté d’informer sur le développement des faits (bien que d’habitude la différence entre les affaires publiques, conçues comme domaine d’histoire, et privées, étant le vrai objet d’intérêt, soit gardée), la défense de son comportement dans la situation où ils devaient faire des choix moralement ambigus, le besoin d‘instruire des successeurs sur de bonnes méthodes de faire la fortune, la grâce de Dieu, la curiosité du monde ou la manifestation de la fierté ancestrale. Toutes ces raisons, sans doute importantes, pouvaient également servir comme un masque spécifique, derrière lequel se cachait le désir, commun à tous les gens, de perpétuer la mémoire de soi-même, de son histoire et ses exploits.

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Skromny i staranny. Wybrane zagadnienia warsztatu pisarskiego Kazimierza Sarneckiego, rezydenta Karola Stanisława Radziwiłła na dworze Jana III Sobieskiego

„Ale ponieważ postanowiłem, jak długo będę żył, przekazywać na piśmie…”. Żądza pisania i jej maski w staropolskich pamiętnikach