Widzenie księdza Piotra z Dziadów części III Adama Mickiewicza w kontekście Objawienia św. Jana. Rekonesans

Abstract

This editorial and textual, partially interpretative preliminary essay on the connections between The Vision of Friar Peter from Forefathers’ Eve. Part III by Adam Mickiewicz and The Book of Revelation by John the Evangelist focuses on author’s reflections stemming from his experiences as a publisher of a school edition of Forefathers’ Eve. Part III (Katowice 1996) a s well a s a lexicography (The Mickiewicz Dictionary, edited with Jacek Lyszczyna, Katowice 2000; particularly entries: The Vision of Friar Peter, “Forty and four,” Forefathers’ Eve, Parts II, IV and III). The text acknowledges as points of reference the achievements of scholars and interpreters who notice those points of intersection on various levels: obvious for some, hidden for others. This text, therefore, constitutes an attempt at a re‑reading of the great works of Polish Romanticism, which stems from a methodological school of interpretation familiar to Jan Piotrowiak, since we have all developed at the same department, under the watchful eye of the same Master, Prof. Ireneusz Opacki–“from him, all of us.”