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Niesamowita Słowiańszczyzna
“Uncanny Slavdom” (title translated by AI)
Maria Janion (born 1926)
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When was the founding Slavic myth born, and what is left of that forgotten tradition? The book goes back to Romantic attempts to reconstruct a pre-Christian Slavic mythology, whose echoes it finds in Słowacki and Mickiewicz, and to the Catholicism that, under the partitions, became a consolation and nourished messianic illusions. Sacralising Poland as a victim, it argues, meant demonising its oppressors. It reads Polish history and literature as the place where national phantasms and unworked traumas surface, and follows them into relations with Russia and Ukraine today.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 357 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Politics (assigned by AI)
- First published
- 2006 by Wydawnictwo Literackie
- Author's age
- 80 when first published
- ISBN
9788308039281 (original)
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