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Conversation on horseback at night. (Norwid’s Lilie)
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This article proposes an interpretation of Lilie [Lilies], the final part of Cyprian Norwid’s Pięć zarysów [Five Sketches]. This little narrative poem contains – similarly to the other works in Pięć zarysów – parts in dialogue. The conversation of the protagonists, its subject matter and the circumstances in which the dialogue takes place, constitute the main object of analysis. The literary and historical figure of the horseman and the topographical, cultural and political aspects of the Zhytomyr tract are thus points of particular interest. The reference to the Gospel parable about the lilies opens up a religious perspective of the conversation taking place on the subject of freedom and its possible – or necessary – limitations. Lilie combines the perspective of a genre picture, evoking the image of friends riding horseback at night in familiar surroundings, with a dispute on ethical, religious and (perhaps also) political themes. The opening of the conversation is linked to the symbolic opening of the topography in which this conversation takes place.
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Norwid, poem, topography, philosophical dialogue, ChristianityDetails
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