Spór o filozofię szaty. Cyprian Norwid a Thomas Carlyle
Dispute over the philosophy of clothes. Cyprian Norwid versus Thomas Carlyle

Summary/Abstract: Cyprian Norwid’s attitude to the philosophy of clothes presented by Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus may indeed be perceived only as an object of speculation, but undoubtedly the author of Vade-mecum author must have encountered Carlyle (as confirmed in his lectures on Juliusz Słowacki). In this study I outline two areas of potential intertextual community of Norwid's literary motives with the life’s philosophy and life’s legend of Carlyle: one is delimited by the poem Promethidion and a fragment of the dialogue Wiesław, which may be a kind of polemic with the Carlylean philosophy of clothes; the other area is delineated by Lord Singleworth’s Secret, where the figure and life’s attitude of Singleworth could easily reveal the eccentricities of Carlyle himself (this supposition is corroborated by Carlyle’s death in 1881, thus in the time of Norwid’s writing so-called Italian novelettes).

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