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Gawęda
A ''gawęda'' () is a story; especially, one that belongs to a kind of Polish epic literary genre. History ''Gawęda'' is a genre of Polish folk literature. The term also describes a literary work, stylized as an oral tale, characterized by freedom of composition, rich in digressions, and written in language close to colloquial language, that presented a picture of Sarmatian ''szlachta'' (nobility, or gentry) manners and morals. During the Romantic period, in the first half of the 19th century, the genre developed as the "''szlachta'' ''gawęda''" ('). It told of the lives and manners of the nobility, affirming the Sarmatian world of values. The leading author in this genre was Henryk Rzewuski (''Pamiątki Soplicy''—Memoirs of Soplica, 1839–41). Other authors in this line included K. Gaszyński (''Kontuszowe pogadanki''—''Kontusz'' Chats), Władysław Syrokomla (''Urodzony Jan Dęboróg''—Jan Dęboróg), Wincenty Pol (''Wieczór przy kominku''—An Evening by the Fire), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henryk Rzewuski
Henryk Rzewuski (3 May 1791 – 28 February 1866) was a Polish nobleman, Romantic-era journalist and novelist. Life Count Henryk Rzewuski was a scion of a Polish magnate family in Ukraine. He was the son of Adam Wawrzyniec Rzewuski, a Russian senator who resided in St. Petersburg; a great-nephew of a Targowica confederate;Jan Zygmunt Jakubowski, ed., ''Literatura polska od średniowiecza do pozytywizmu'' (Polish Literature from the Middle Ages to Positivism), p. 480. and great-grandson of Wacław Rzewuski, Polish Great Crown Hetman who had been exiled in 1767–73 to Kaluga by Russian ambassador to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Nikolai Repnin, who was effectively running the Commonwealth.Information from the Polish Wikipedia article, as of 00:47, 15 March 2009. Henryk Rzewuski was, further, the brother of Karolina Sobańska (who became an agent of the Russian secret service and mistress of the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz), Ewelina Hańska (who married Honoré de Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |