‘In the Ukraine in the good old days’ – 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' by Paulin Święcicki
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The forgotten work and life of Paulin Święcicki (1841-1876), a writer from Kiev region and active in Galicia, represents a rare, authentic example of Polish-Ukrainian cultural border. His debut work entitled 'Przed laty. Powieść ukraińska' (1865), despite being an artistic failure, is an interesting link between the heritage of the Romantic 'Ukrainian School' and the historical vision of Polish Borderlands in With fire and sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz. The creation of the 17th-century reality of Ukrainian grasslands (noble, rural and Cossack existence), battle scenes (fights against the Tatars), romantic-melodramatic plot - these are all adapted to a unique Ukrainian (not Polish-centred) perspective. Święcicki’s ‘ukrainism’ is a portrait of Cossack heroism, a picture of enslaving the Ukrainian nation, and a picturesque description of local stories. The eclectic character of the work, which is nostalgically contemplative and in romantic style, as well as journalistically engaged, has an impact on its incoherence, but also makes it original against the background of the Sarmatian-borderland fiction of those days.
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