The article is a study of the ways of interpreting the image of the library in Józef Kallenbach’s short story Przygoda bibliotekarza (The Adventure of the Librarian, 1888). The presented examples demonstrate the multi-dimensional meaning of library as an intellectual problem and cognition space. The author shows Kallenbach’s points of view concerning library as a motif which helps to pose questions about convention and conception of realism and, as a consequence, about Kallenbach’s view on culture. The present discussion also sheds light on a few important texts which create a context to analyse the short story by Kallenbach. Intertextual allusions can be helpful in understanding the main problem presented in The Adventure of the Librarian. The paper focuses on the meaning of the library as a graveyard as well as on dream and onirism as a literary convention which expresses the possibilities of cognition and asks what realism in Polish literature of the end the 19th century in Kallenbach’s case actually is.The article discusses the aesthetic differentiation of the library in the short story The Adventure of the Librarian by Józef Kallenbach and the painting Der Bu¨cherwurm (Bookworm) by Carl Spitzweg. The author tries to prove that The Adventure of the Librarian could be an epic ekphrasis to Spitzweg’s painting.
The present discussion sheds light on the works and worldview related to Polish Enlightenment of Konstanty Maria Górski (1862−1909), a writer, poet, historian and expert on Enlightenment in Polish literature. Although Górski was an individualist in the Young Poland movement, as a scientist and writer he was a representative of his time. The article shows the ways in which the microdimensions of Enlightenment in Górski’s scientific biography may be understood. His line of thought reveals the aspects, borders and definitions of Polish Enlightenment by means of scientific interpretations of biographies of the writers of the period as well as by specifying the cultural, esthetical and ideological movement known as Enlightenment. The field of Górski’s scientific exploration focuses on the 90s of the 18th century and helps to understand why the theme and fascination with Polish Enlightenment, especially with the 90s of the 18th century which was such a difficult time for Polish culture and national identity as it was connected with national partitions and hope for resurrection and liberation, becomes a cornerstone of Górski’s scientific development as a researcher trying to resolve specific problems in Polish literature at that very time. The author discusses the manner in which many different problems connected with Polish Enlightenment are presented in Górski’s biography and works. The purpose of the article is to present the specific mechanism which could be compared to allegoresis, used by Górski in his short story Bibliomaniac (Polish title: Biblioman)
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