Odeskie konteksty biografii i twórczości Adama Mickiewicza w pracach historycznoliterackich 2. połowy XIX wieku

Abstract

The paper focuses on historical-literary works written in the second half of the 19th century, in which the Odessa period of Adam Mickiewicz's biography and work was discussed. The works of Adam Rzążewski, Józef Tretiak, Teofil Ziemba, Piotr Chmielowski and Stanisław Tarnowski were taken into account, as well as an important book by the poet's son, Władysław. From their reading it appears that the time of the poet's stay in Odessa and its aftermath, that is, the “Odessan Sonnets” (“Sonety odeskie”), are problematic issues of Mickiewiczology from that time. The article analyzes text strategies that reveal the reasons and effects of this problematicness and allow to reconstruct the criteria of assessments and norms shaping the literary and historical discourse applied at that time. This allowed us to recognize that Mickiewicz's experience from Odessa did not easily give in to unequivocal narrations, because it was “a difficult trial of the patriotic codex of the bard.”