Soplicowo- Mickiewicz's earthly paradise

Abstract

The author deals with the problem of the paradisical nature of Mickiewicz's epic poem Mister Tadeusz. This problem has been noticed by the Polish Nobel price winner Czeslaw Milosz in his work Country Ulro. The interpretation of the world of Mister Tadeusz emphasises the importance of the spatial-temporal "framework" which has been theoretically elaborated in Uspensky's Poetics of Composition. Due to this framework the narrator's position in realtion to the work passes through a number of stages: from the external, through "the bridge" and the stepping over,up to the concrete entrance into the world of the poem. The interwoveness of space and time makes this world very attractive and convincing to the reader. A story based on the myth of Adam is also built into the epic poem. Its main characteristics are significant places of intentional inconsistency and its symbolic quality. The paradisical motif is most impressively delineated through the character of Zosia. She is the center of the paradisical and at the same time its moving force.