Maria Czapska - emigrantka o emigrantach. Szkice mickiewiczowskie i inne

Abstract

In this article I am talking about emigrant poets whose literary creation was the subject of research and reflection by Maria Czapska. I present Maria Czapska as a personality formed by the aristocratic house located on the Eastern Borderlands of Polish Republic in 1945. After 1945, she was associated with the Paris-based "Culture" and the Literature Institute. The writer paid special attention to common problems of the Great Emigration and the independence emigration after 1945 - the complicated fate of Polish artists, the perception of places outside their homeland and the disagreement of Polish emigration communities. In her articles and books she focused on the lives and activities of the Great Emigration - Adam Mickiewicz and Cyprian Kamil Norwid. As a source material I have taken into account, first of all outlines of Mickiewicz Szkice mickiewiczowskie published in 1963. but also other books and texts by this author were published by "Culture". The perspective of reading the biographies of nineteenth-century artists by a writer representing the post-1945 independence emigration turned out to be particulary important. The most important conclusions that can be drawn from the text is the universality of the themes taken up by Polish artists in different epochs and the influence of emigration on the work of writers and poets.