Rachunki from Exile. Emigration Experiences in Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Annuals. An Overview

Abstract

The article raises questions about the influence of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s exile experiences on the ways of creating critical subjectivity in Rachunki, especially in their first annual published in Poznań in 1867 under the pseudonym Bolesławita. The analysis includes metatextual statements, metaphors which facilitate the naming of writing tasks and goals, as well as the functions of selected grammatical forms. This allowed me to highlight the importance of the writer’s diagnoses of contemporary times from the perspective of an exile. The article demonstrates that this did not mean a clear self-identification established through the textual strategies applied, but rather influenced the identity instability of the creative subject disclosed in Rachunki.