Literatura polska a współczesne zbliżenie kulturowe Ukraińców i Polaków

Abstrakt

The study (originally prepared as a paper for a learned conference entitled "Polish and Ukrainian Literature of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries: a Fellowship of Difficult Experiences" and organized in 1994 by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of the Sciences and the Institute of Slavic Literature with the collaboration of the T.H. Szewczenko Institute of Literature of the Ukrainian Academy of the Sciences in Kiev; neither the paper nor other conference materials have been published) is a review of the forms in which Russian-Ukrainian theme was present in Polish literature over the ten centuries of common history which Poles and Ukrainians shared. In turn the author discusses the place and role of themes and "Roxolan" motives in the Old Polish writing of the 11^th-18^th centuries, the main directions of interest as well as creative achievements in the given period of the representatives of the broadly understood 19^th-century "Ukrainian school" in the Polish literature of romanticism. Eventually the author dwelt in particular on the writing of such writers as Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Józef Łobodowski, Stanisław Vincenz and Włodzimierz Odojewski − the most important attempts at "taming" the historical events of the 20th century as regards the Polish-Ukrainian relations between the First World War and the effects brought about by the years after the Second World War. Summing up, the author formulates several conclusions of a general character concerning the socio-cultural influence each given phenomenon may exert on the current stage of the Polish-Ukrainian relations, a stage which originated in the events of 1989-91 years.