Konspirator Konarski ponownie zakonspirowany. Szyfr zegarmistrzowski w "Interesujących mężczyznach" Leskowa

• Authors: Zieliński Jan
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The starting point is Interesting Men, a novel by Russian prose writer Nikolai Leskov, in which the motif of 18th-century English inventor Graham’s clocks plays an important role. The novel contains a quotation in Polish thas is attributed by Leskow to Zygmunt Krasiński, but in fact it comes from a poem by Szymon Konarski, a Polish conspirator, who was shot in 1839. By profession, Konarski was a watchmaker specializing in the so-called Graham’s escapements. The article puts forward a hypothesis that Leskov knew the biography of the victim and wanted to commemorate his fate in his novel, omitting the tsarist censorship

Keywords

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watchmaking in literature, George Graham (watchmaker), Szymon Konarski, Zygmunt Krasiński, Nikolai Leskov

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 6. Design. Teoria, praktyka, interpretacje
• Pages: 387-348

Contributors

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Zieliński Jan

• Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych UKSW w Warszawie