TY - JOUR AU - Ławski, Jarosław PY - 2021/02/21 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Projectional Interpretation: Bolesław Prus’s Reading of Zdania i uwagi by Adam Mickiewicz JF - Tematy i Konteksty JA - tematyikonteksty VL - IS - 1 SE - Problems DO - 10.15584/tik.spec.eng.2020.10 UR - https://journals.ur.edu.pl/tematyikonteksty/article/view/1629 SP - 180-196 AB - <p>The article focuses on the interpretation of selected aphorisms of the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (1798–1855) provided by Bolesław Prus (1847–1912),<br>a prose writer and a representative of realism in Polish post-Romantic literature. Prus interpreted religious, sometimes almost mystical, aphorisms as commendation of hard work, activism, and as a manifesto of practical ethics. Inspired by the mystical thoughts of Angelus Silesius, Jakob Böhme and Saint-Martin, Mickiewicz’s aphorisms are perceived as exceptionally ambiguous. Prus, however, projected his own literary and philosophical mindset onto the micro-texts of the Romantic poet and, in consequence, oversimplified their meaning. What he did is here called a projectional interpretation.</p> ER -