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    Published: 2020-02-071
    No. 7 (2019)

    Poland and Poles During the Great Twilight. The Problem of Patriotism in the Diary of Cezary Jellenta

    Joanna Dobrowolska
    Prace Literaturoznawcze
    Section: Patriotism and literature
    https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4713

    Abstract

    In my article I describe how the concept of ‘patriotism’ functions in the literary works of Cezary
    Jellenta. I believe that in the historical period following the recreation of the independent Polish
    state many important problems and doubts arose. In this article the subject of my interpretation is
    Jellenta’s diary Wielki zmierzch [The Great Twilight] (1925) about the times of the First World War.
    I begin with an account of Jellenta’s revolutionary activity in 1905 (he was the editor-in-chief of
    “Ateneum” at that time). In the main, analytical, part I present his critical view of Poland and Poles
    on the eve of Independence Day. I distinguish three main groups of problems: the future Polish state
    as an idea and a political conception, the Polish nation, and the concept of patriotism. I show how
    Jellenta himself understood the notion of patriotism at that particular time. I refer to the19th-century
    patriotic traditions and political myths as well as the concept of national character. In the last part of
    my article I confront Jellenta’s diary Wielki zmierzch with his study about Josef Pilsudski.

    Keywords:

    Cezary Jellenta, the 1914–1918 World War, intelligentsia in the 19th century, patriotism, political myths

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    Dobrowolska, J. (2020). Poland and Poles During the Great Twilight. The Problem of Patriotism in the Diary of Cezary Jellenta. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (7), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4713

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