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Between faith and philosophy. On the issues of spiritual revival in Eugeniusz Korwin-Małaczewski’s prose
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The sketch discusses the issue of conversion present in the literary output of the soldier of the First and Third Polish Corps in Russia, and then the Blue Army of Józef Haller – Eugeniusz Korwin-Małaczewski, whose achievements as a promoter of the values of 19th century patriotism and Catholicism were marginalized for a long time after World War II. The basis for this profiled issue derives from one of the most famous stories of the young writer, A Horse on a Hill, resulting from traumatic experiences from the fighs carried out in the borderlands during the Polish-Bolshevik war. An analysis of a fragment of the work was performed, describing the spiritual renewal of the hero who, as a result of the conversations with the nun who looked after him in the hospital and reading the Bible, experienced a meeting with God and gained inner peace. The issue of conversion, revealed in this way, was also interpreted in the context of the author’s sympathy for Messianic ideas that were revealed throughout his work. An attempt was made to reconcile the relationship between the Messianic philosophy present in Małaczewski’s thought and the Catholicism he manifested.
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literature of Polish modernism ; World War I ; Polish messianism ; conversion ; Eugeniusz Korwin-Małaczewski literatura polskiego modernizmu ; I wojna światowa ; polski mesjanizm ; nawrócenie ; Eugeniusz Korwin-Małaczewski
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