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Le « Promethidion » de Cyprian Norwid

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ID5092451
AuthorsChristophe Potocki (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume78
Issue1
Pages129-138
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunications (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0588-8018 • E-ISSN: 2102-5924
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/comm.2005.2278
OpenAlexW2021916308
LanguageEN

Cyprian Norwid, the last of the great Polish Romantics and the first Post-Romantic, believed that the labor of art alone could reunite his dismembered nation, allow enslaved and fragmented man to free and fulfil himself and an exiled humanity, in the likeness of Adam-Prometheus, gradually to rediscover its truth in God and to be reborn. The Promethidion, A Discourse in Two Dialogues and an Epilogue (1851), echoes Plato's Symposium, while dealing with Beauty and Art, the True and the Good in a perspective that is all at once socio-political, historical and theological. Norwid, determined to go beyond the cycle of violence and martyrdom, as it appears notably in the Romantic Prometheanism, turned to the creative and civilizing aspects of Prometheus as an emancipator and dispenser of the arts

Aesthetics · Art · Beauty · Humanity · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romance · The arts · Theology · Visual arts · Central European Literary Studies · Language and Culture · Law · Philosophy

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