The Poem for the Opening of the Picador Café: History – Myth – Literature

• Authors: Joanna Maleszyńska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The founders of the first literary café in reborn Poland, namely ‘Pikador’ in Warsaw, chose a poem by Jan Lechoń for the inauguration ceremony in November 1918. In the poem, titled Mochnacki, the young poet recollects a historical concert of Maurycy Mochnacki, a Romantic tribune of the 19th-century Warsaw, a pianist and a writer. Different possibilities of interpretation of the work, which is heavily emotional – ranging from patriotic poetry, through an almost social satire to an intimate confession encoded in the form of a description of a piano concert and reactions of the foreign audience to it – are not contradictory as they complement each other well.

Keywords

EN

Romanticism; Reborn Poland; literary café; patriotic poetry; independence poetry

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 171-186

Dates

published

2019-12-30

Contributors

author

Joanna Maleszyńska

• Adam Mickiewicz University

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6925-5907

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2299-7458.08.25