Published: 2026-08-26

Stefan Żeromski’s „Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces” as a Narrative Cycle. Interpreting the Collection of Short Stories Based on the Entries in Żeromski’s Journals

Iga Jewiarz Profil ORCID autora Iga Jewiarz

Abstract

The article presents the central idea of Stefan Żeromski’s collection of short stories Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces”, with its first edition interpreted as a coherent and planned narrative cycle. At the level of individual stories Żeromski exposes social, moral and economic ruin of the Polish nation in the Russian partition, whereas at the higher level of the whole cycle he creates a community of patriots resisting systemic denationalization. The author proposes a spiritual or psychical reform of the Polish society and the carried out analysis of the narrative cycle shows that Żeromski viewed Uniates as the guiding light in his social and national project of the reform.

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Stefan Żeromski, narrative cycle, Uniates, Russian partition

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Jewiarz, I. (2026). Stefan Żeromski’s „Ravens and Crows Will Peck Us to Pieces” as a Narrative Cycle. Interpreting the Collection of Short Stories Based on the Entries in Żeromski’s Journals. Colloquia Litteraria, 38(1/2025), 69–94. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/cl/article/view/17006

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