Ambiwalencje uczuciowe. O cmentaryzmie początku dziewiętnastego wieku

Abstract

In the article, I check the term cemeteryism as a cultural phenomenon associated with the attentiveness of the cemetery as a geographieal and emotional place. Based on the memoirs of François-Rene Chateaubriand, Philippe Paul de Segur (Napoleon's adjutant) and letters by Juliusz Słowacki and Antoni Paweł Sułkowski (participant of the Napoleonie Wars), I discuss the pietures of nineteenth-century cemeteries: natural (provincial and church), anthropomorphic, living (in statu nascendi) cemeteries the period of wars, city-cemeteries (during the war and epidemies), artificial (opera). Their summary shows that the whole world can be seen as a great necropolis, which arouses ambivalent feelings: sadness, horror, fascination.