The ten years Stanisław Pigoń spent in Wilno (1921-1931) was a very important phase of his
life. Wilno not only attracted a great deal of his research but also became the focus of a lasting
emotional attachment, a sentiment which he reaffi rmed in a memoir published shortly before his
death in 1968. Although a lot is already known about Pigoń’s Wilno decade, there are some episodes
that are worth a closer examination. One of them is a debate about Konrad’s cell which he triggered
off just before leaving Wilno. The controversy concerns a cell in the former Basylian Monastery
where Adam Mickiewicz was imprisoned in 1823 and where Konrad, the main character of his
Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve) undergoes a spiritual transformation, the climax of the poetic drama.
Pigoń contributions to this interminable debate exhibit a fi ne balance of scholarly precision and
passionate conviction. This article not only looks at the origin and the early phases of the Konrad’s
cell controversy in their contemporary background but also tries to show Pigoń’s involvement in
the life of the university and the cultural and literary life of Wilno.
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