Zima i egzystencja : romantyczne tropy w korpusie tekstów zimowych Jerzego Kamila Weintrauba

In the article, the author examines the corpus of winter texts by Jerzy Kamil Weintraub. The author’s deliberations start with the question on the “white stain” in Pan Tadeusz by Mickiewicz, its lack of winter season, blackened in a pastiche by Słowacki which, as it turns out, constitutes a post scriptum coincident with Epilog by Weintraub. Therefore, a phantasmatic study, i.e. questions about existence, is preceeded by a Romantic context, i.e. questions about “winterness”. The author follows the Romantic traces (existential and intertextual ones), on the basis of which he recognises existential states of the poet - loneliness, fear and suffering present in Weintraub’s allegoric illustrations and winter works. A tropological discourse worked out by the author of the article allows for a translation of the senses derived from the winter landscape into the world sensation full of melancholy