- Tytuł:
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“At the Bescribbled Rock”: Tadeusz Micińskis ‘Blood-red Snow’ as a ‘poème à clef’
„Przy Skale Pisanej”. „Krwawy śnieg” Tadeusza Micińskiego jako poemat z kluczem - Autorzy:
- Czabanowska-Wróbel, Anna
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2087797.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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Polish literature in the early 20th century
the avant-garde
artists' biographies
suicide in literature
Jadwiga Janczewska (1889–1914)
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885– 1939)
Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937)
Tadeusz Miciński (1873–1918)
poème à clef
poezja Tadeusza Micińskiego
biografie artystów
samobójstwo w literaturze
Jadwiga Janczewska
Tadeusz Miciński
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Karol Szymanowski
Tatry
Zakopane - Opis:
- This article is an attempt to re-read Tadeusz Miciński's poem ‘Blood-red Snow’ (‘Krwawy śnieg’, 1914) in the context of a tragedy that took place in February 1914 at Zakopane, or more precisely, in Kościeliska Valley in the Tatras. It was there that Jadwiga Janczewska, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz's fiancée, took her life by shooting himself in the head. Her suicide prompted Miciński, a close friend of Witkiewicz, to write the ‘Blood-red Snow’, a poetic reportage infused with ambiguity, which presents a highly subjective vision of the tragic event and its circumstances. Read out of context, the poem seems be just another product of the poet's fascination with the philosophy of the occult (Luciferianism). However, when its real-life context is restored, the heady symbolism turns out to be a camouflage of a poème à clef, a genre which ‘Blood-red Snow’ actually exemplifies. The poem is an instant reaction to a dramatic event. To make sense of it one does not need to be familiar with the whole story of the relations between Miciński and Witkiewicz. What is perhaps worth noting is that their relationship soured after Jadwiga Janczewska's suicide, which triggered an unending blame game on all sides. While the public held Witkiewicz responsible for the young woman's death, he himself put the blame on Miciński and, first and foremost, on Karol Szymanowski. These controversies are, however, beyond the scope of the 'Blood-red Snow'.
- Źródło:
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Ruch Literacki; 2020, 3; 247-264
0035-9602 - Pojawia się w:
- Ruch Literacki
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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