Jak Norwid projektował swój powrót zza grobu

Abstract

In the Romantic period, death and resurrection belonged to the most important categories of artistic reflection. Norwid also explored the thanatic and resurrection topics, however he was more interested in the aesthetic dimension than the theological aspect of returning from beyond the grave, namely how the values of truth, goodness and beauty initially become the cause of the artist’s suffering to become later a guarantee of his immortality. From the first emigration poem titled “Adam Krafft” till late works, the poet presented the fate of artists and the works they created as the operative substance for testing the destruction and rebirth principle. Norwid believed that his work, which transcended the rigid confines and obsessions of its own era, would resurrect in the future.