Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Critical View on the Literature in Vilnius in the Early Nineteenth Century Cover Image

Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego krytyczny ogląd Literatury w Wilnie w początku XIX wieku
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Critical View on the Literature in Vilnius in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author(s): Jolanta Kowal
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Oral history, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski; literary criticism; literature; Lithuania; Vilnius;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents one of the first critical texts by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski entitled Literature in Vilnius at the beginning of the 19th century (Literatura w Wilnie w początku XIX wieku). The text is a part of Memoires which were being published in the Petersburg weekly Tygodnik Petersburski in 1837 by the very young at that time (twenty-five-year-old) future writer. Bearing in mind the young age of the author, what is amazing in this work is his maturity but also the intransigence of his assessments and opinions, for he was sure that these features of literary criticism were its raison d’être.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 119-135
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish