The Native Poet of Belarus: The Field of Mickiewicz & the Birth of Belarusian Literature Hashtag (topic) #Influence #Features Nagłówek super artykułu Title on page in header The Native Poet of Belarus: The Field of Mickiewicz & the Birth of Belarusian Literature Image or video wplyw-header-2.png Podpis dla multimediów Influence. Adam Mickiewicz - collage#2. Design by Matej Kaniewski for Culture.pl Header text color rgb(255, 255, 255) Enable audio for video Off Negative header audio button Wyłączony Negative side audio button Wyłączony Zawartość (treść strony Super Artykułu) Columns style left column static Left column Ludwik Kurella, illustration for Mickiewicz's ballad "Rybka" (The Mermaid), 1869. Photo: Wikimedia Right column Published in Vilnius (present-day Lithuania) in 1821, Ballads and Romances and, a year later, Forefather’s Eve: Parts II and IV are the cornerstones not only of modern Polish literature, but also of a new approach to the world. Tekst Mickiewicz’s Belarusian circle Text size standard fonts size Columns style left column static Left column Wincenty Dunin-Marcinkiewicz - poet, writer, playwright, one of the founding fathers of modern Belarusian literature. Photo: Wikimedia Right column It is surely no accident that the first steps toward the new Belarusian literature were taken by authors from Mickiewicz’s circle. Tekst Kupala, Kolas and others Text size standard fonts size Columns style left column static Left column Belarusian national poet Yanka Kupala (Ivan Lutsevich). Photo: Wikimedia Right column In the next generation, in the period of the ‘Belarusian Rebirth’, after the easing of the Tsar’s repressive policies following the 1905 Revolution, Mickiewicz was invariably treated as a national, ‘local’ poet. Tekst The Field of Mickiewicz Text size standard fonts size Columns style left column static Left column Mickiewicz's homeland, Nowogródek (Navahradak) and its surroundings in the interwar period; photo: Jan Bułhak/www.audiovis.nac.gov.pl (NAC) Right column What, then, was this long shadow of the Polish poet on Belarusian literature about, and what arose from it? Tekst Kurapaty forest and Forefathers’ Eve Text size standard fonts size Columns style left column static Left column A demonstration-march towards Kurapaty forest on Forefather's Eve, Minsk. Photo: Uladzimir Sapalov Right column We should note that the idea of the ‘field of Mickiewicz’ was not always evident in Belarusian culture. Tekst Author: Mikołaj Gliński, October 2023. Translated by Soren Gauger. Sources: Irina Bahdanovich, ‘Tworczasc Adama Mickiewicza i stanaulennie biełaruskaj ramantycznaj tradycji’, 1998; Adam Maldzis, ‘Adam Mickiewicz a kształt białoruskiej tożsamości narodowej’; Serzh Minskeyevich, ‘Paema Adama Mickiewicza “Dziady” i biełaruskaja litaratura XIX - paczatku XX stahoddzia’, 2010; Zianon Pazniak, Kurapaty, 1994. Text size standard fonts size Link URL Tap to return More Super Articles Title Lithuania, "‘Lithuania, my homeland…’: Pan Tadeusz & the Origins of Modern Lithuanian Literature URL /en/feature/lithuania-my-homeland-pan-tadeusz-the-origins-of-modern-lithuanian-… Title The Poet as an Imperiologist: What Mickiewicz Knew about Russia URL /en/feature/the-poet-as-an-imperiologist-what-mickiewicz-knew-about-russia Title Faris, A Polish Rider amid the Sands of the Desert – Among the Arabs and Jews URL /en/feature/faris-a-polish-rider-amid-the-sands-of-the-desert-among-the-arabs-a… Introduction Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances and Forefathers’ Eve mark the beginning of a new Romantic epoch in Polish literature. But what if those same works are at the dawn of modern Belarusian literature? What was Mickiewicz’s role and influence on the formation of the Belarusian national consciousness? Not standard color version Off Summary Adam Mickiewicz’s Ballads and Romances and Forefathers’ Eve mark the beginning of a new Romantic epoch in Polish literature. But what if those same works are at the dawn of modern Belarusian literature? What was Mickiewicz’s role and influence on the formation of the Belarusian national consciousness? Cover wplyw-header-2_1.png Thumbnail size standardowy
