Neomanichejski dualizm w dziełach literackich Słowian

Abstract

The article provides a cultural presentation of Bogomilian dualism as Oriental and Pan-Slavic. The author uses the concepts of theological dualism and theological inversion in the analysis of selected works of Polish and Russian literature. Drawing on the methodology deriving from religious studies, he identifies a set of works of ethnogenetic literary history. He proves that relic beliefs and religious ideas retain the persistence of binary structures in texts of modern literature. He presents their authors as ‘channels’ of relic unorthodox content. The article shows that by turning to folklore, Slavic authors bring out or salvage from collective oblivion the world of the ancient dualism of Iranian provenance. The methodology proposed in the article turns out to be instrumental in the efficient analysis of Slavic literature, with a special focus on the Bulgarian one.