Abstrakt: | The title of Marek Troszyński’s book Słowacki. Poza kanonem is excellent
from the perspective of marketing, but at the same time, it succeeds in conveying the
content of the 11 chapters of different length, supplemented with 8 interesting appendices
and 65 aptly selected and described illustrations. In a way, it has a character of sylwa;
its previous versions (published in refereed magazines and collective monographs)
became considerably re‑edited
in order to achieve the result in the form of monography.
I accept the opening form of this dissertation, which is proposed by the author, as well
as his affirmative attitude to the poet’s quasi‑literary
achievements, which makes the
author “a friendly witness” of Słowacki’s biography and writing. The work is undoubtedly
original, own, exceptional and quite unique. I do not expect that in the foreseeable future
we will encounter any gifted follower of the method, inquisitiveness, a highly interesting
narration, and at the same time a lucky discoverer of so many philological findings,
offering such a great number of the conjectures of the poems, not necessarily canonical
ones, however, coming after the “canonical”, because critical, edition of Juliusz Kleiner. |