Napis (Jan 2018)
Barwa komiczna [Królewny Lali] Adama Mickiewicza. Od baśni Apulejusza z Madaury o Amorze i Psyche do Duszeńki Ippolita F. Bogdanowicza
Abstract
The article is an interpretative study devoted to ‘Królewna Lala’ [‘The Princess Doll’] by Adam Mickiewicz, in light of the comic poem convention. It is an attempt at identifying and developing the lines of interpretation which already exist in the research dedicated to the text, initiated by Tadeusz Sinko. The scholar devoted much attention to the unfinished long poem by Mickiewicz. Sinko called ‘Królewna Lala’ a fairy-tale and proposed (having supported it with source text analyses) that the long poem contained motifs and subplots for which the most likely inspiration was the story of Cupid and Psyche by Apuleius Madaurensis (Metamorphoses, chapter IV 28-VI 24). Ewa Szczeglacka-Pawłowska leads her research towards an analysis of ‘Królewna Lala’ in relation to the genre characteristics of the comic poem, especially Dushenka by Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich, a creative travesty of the Apuleius’s tale, which was very well-known in the Romantic period, as well as the rococo long poem by Jean de La Fontaine, entitled Les amours de Psyché et de Cupidon.
