Suicydologia romantyczna
Suicydologia romantyczna

Author(s): Piotr Nowak
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Romanticism; suicide; metempsychosis; Adam Mickiewicz; Juliusz Słowacki
Summary/Abstract: In Polish literature witches, vampires, mermaids and beings with a different ontological status from humans already appeared in Romanticism. Suicidal plots are present in the poem Ghoul ("Upiór"), which preceded Mickiewicz’s poetic drama Dziady, in the ballad "Świteź" (mass suicide), and in "Konrad Wallenrod". Słowacki viewed suicide differently, from his personal experience. His "Godzina myśli" is a metempsychosist poem dedicated to the suicide of his friend, Ludwik Spitznagel. Słowacki never came to terms with this death.

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