O „Echach muzycznych” Bolesława Prusa
On Bolesław Prus’ "Music Echoes"

Summary/Abstract: This paper is devoted to the interpretation of Bolesław Prus’s "Music Echoes". Notably, this has not been analyzed yet in the context of the musical erudition of the writer and aesthetic-teaching goals he set for music or the artists active in this field of art. The interpretative key of "Music Echoes", as hinted by the author’s inspiration, has become the wide, centuries-old cultural context evoked by the mythical figure of Orpheus. Another suggestion came from the composition of the text, which mimics the musical form of variations on a selected theme. The analysis revealed the applicability of motifs drawn from the mythological tradition for the diagnosis of the contemporary artistic and social environment, and for outlining problems faced by the recipients of postmodern art as well as its creators.

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