Published: 2025-12-30

Jeszcze o Ucieczce Mickiewicza. (Nie)prostoduszne pytanie o „worek do roboty”

Małgorzata Burta Profil ORCID autora Małgorzata Burta

Abstract

The article concerns Adam Mickiewicz's ballad entitled "Ucieczka" (Escape). The introduction provides information about the origins and first edition of the work in the volume The Poetry by Adam Mickiewicz. Five volumes in one with the author's portrait. New enlarged and reworked edition (the first volume of the „New Polish Parnas" series), Warsaw-Poznań 1832. The edition includes a reprint of five volumes  historical novels, sonnets and, at the end of the Appendix, first edition of the ballad The Escape. The article refers to the existing literature on the ballad and focuses primarily on an overlooked detail from the dialogue between the ghostly lover and the Maiden in line 83: "Is this a work bag?" It interprets the detail in light of the Maiden's response (line 84: "No, this is a Golden altar") and tegumentology (the study of binding) as a satchel-like binding for a prayer book.

 

Keywords:

Adam Mickiewicz, The Escape, ballad, ghost, tegumentology (bookbinding)

Download files

Citation rules

Burta, M. (2025). Jeszcze o Ucieczce Mickiewicza. (Nie)prostoduszne pytanie o „worek do roboty”. Colloquia Litteraria, (Online first). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/cl/article/view/16493

Cited by / Share

This website uses cookies for proper operation, in order to use the portal fully you must accept cookies.