Author: KORPECKYJ Roman
Title: Adam Mickiewicz. Life of a Romantic
- Compiled by: transl. Malgorzata Glasenapp
- Series: Fortune and FatePlace of publication: Warsaw
- Year of publication: 2013
- Publisher: WAB Publishing House
- Number of pages: 686, [2]
- Illustrations, maps: mir. in text 28
- Size: 24.5 cm
- Binding: hardback
- Condition: good+
- ISBN: 9788377479780
Description:
"A victim of tsarist Russia and a beneficiary of its generosity, an impoverished poet and a frequenter of aristocratic salons, a devout Catholic and a staunch heretic, a romantic lover, a spouse, a father of seven children (including one illegitimate) and a feminist, an egotist and a devoted friend, a Bonapartist, a politician-mystic, a revolutionary."
This is Adam Mickiewicz - the national bard, the icon of Polish Romanticism.
Roman Koropeckyj, a professor of Slavic studies at the University of California, in portraying the prominent 19th-century poet and playwright, seeks to pull him down from the symbolic monument erected by Polish culture of the last two centuries. An almost novelistic narrative is interwoven in his book with brilliant reflections by a literary historian and an expert on European Romanticism. Koropecki's monumental work is the first biography of Mickiewicz in English in almost a century. It allows one to look at the Romantic bard from a completely new perspective, without the legends and stereotypes that have become entrenched in the Polish consciousness.
It also includes a list of abbreviations, footnotes, bibliography and name index.
