Krasiå?ski Zygmunt (Krasinski Zygmunt)( Representative of Polish romanticism, playwright, poet and thinker.)
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Biography Krasiå?ski Zygmunt (Krasinski Zygmunt)
(1812-1859) Ideologist of the Polish messianism. Born February 19, 1812. Son of Napoleon's General V. Krasiå?ski and Princess Maria Radziwill, a writer all his life remained faithful aristocratic and Catholic traditions of the family. Received an excellent education, in particular abroad. At the beginning of the literary activity Krasiå?ski composing novels in the spirit of W. Scott. The first outstanding work was Krasiå?ski undivine comedy drama (Nieboska komedia, 1835). Among the many issues raised by the author in this surprisingly capacious play (poet, child, family, petty bourgeois selfishness, leader), dominates theme of social revolution. Krasiå?ski shows that the collapse of the old world is accompanied by a new enslavement of the masses as a result of revolutionary change and the destruction of cultural property - the inevitable consequences of the struggle between two worlds. In another symbolic drama, Iridion (Irydion, 1836), describes the tragedy of the Polish language of allegory (the action takes place in ancient Rome).
Krasiå?ski-poet-playwright gives Krasiå?ski. Of his poetic works of the most significant poem Before the Dawn (Przedswit, . 1843) and the cycle of Psalms of the Future (Psalmy przyszlosci, . 1845), . which he, . as in his treatises, . develops a philosophical theory of love and based on the Hegelian triad messianic vision, . predicting the onset of the third age - the kingdom of the Spirit and God's Law, . Interestingly, last poem (Ostatni, 1847) - about the fate of Polish exiles in Siberia. Of great interest are the works of a political nature, which serves Krasiå?ski implacable enemy of the imperial despotism. Died Krasiå?ski February 23, 1859.
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