Opublikowane: 2020-02-071

Polska i Polacy w czasach „wielkiego zmierzchu”. Problem patriotyzmu w pamiętniku Cezarego Jellenty

Joanna Dobrowolska
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Dział: Patriotyzm a literatura
https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4713

Abstrakt

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.

Słowa kluczowe:

Cezary Jellenta, wojna światowa 1914–1918, inteligencja w XIX wieku, patriotyzm, mity polityczne

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Dobrowolska, J. (2020). Polska i Polacy w czasach „wielkiego zmierzchu”. Problem patriotyzmu w pamiętniku Cezarego Jellenty. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (7), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4713

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