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Zdobycie władzy Czesława Miłosza – dzisiaj

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Mokranowska Z.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

2011

issue 1(7)

167-181

The theme of the article is an attempt to answer the question concerning the way in which Czesław Miłosz’s novel The Seizure of Power exists in the contemporary readers’ reception. To which extent does it nowadays fulfill (or not) the functions for which it was artistically designed half a century earlier? Is it attractive, or do the standards of reading evolved which made it old¬ fashioned and unable to provoke readers emotions? The article concentrates also on searching for important distinctive features for the type of novel that The Seizure of Power is or appears to be today. It can be regarded both as a novel concerning politics with a clear autobiographical suggestions and as a key novel of a certain factual value. By a con-temporary (especially young) reader this first novel of the Nobel Prize Winner will be re-garded as a historical prose. By literary critics and new monographers of the author of The Issa Valley it will be treated today like the caesura in Miłosz’s artistic biography – such atti-tude is now more visible than ever before. It marks the point from which he distances himself from political „journalism” and favors poetry, essays and criticism

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

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Mokranowska Z.

Świat i Słowo

2010

vol. 2010, nr 2 (15)

107-118

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.

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1 Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2 Mokranowska Z.

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Zdobycie władzy Czesława Miłosza – dzisiaj

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