Lilla Weneda by Juliusz Słowacki and the theory of conquest. The problem with historiosophical understanding of drama

The author of this article tries the revision of the historiosophic interpretation of the piece read in the light of the so called theory of the conquest. The analysis of the language spoken by the figures of the drama reveals that Lilla Weneda by Juliusz Słowacki is not alone the vision of the 19th century theory of the genesis of Polish country and nation, but alongside the romantic myth puer-senex narrated by the poet. The interpretation of the author of this article, the above myth emerged from the transformation of the traditionally understood topos puer-senex (its characteristics was presented basing on the thesis forwarded by Hillman and Curtius) that has been performed on the instance of the replicas of the Mythology of the North. The author’s estimation is, that Słowacki does not determine who embodies puer and who embodies senex in the drama (Lechi/Lachi or Venedi) or who embodies both puer and senex in the same time. The complete texture of the drama indicates the conclusion that Słowacki abandons the theory of Lewestam and did not declare to follow any historiosophic interpretations. On the contrary he endows both, the Lechi and Venedi, with the features of the people of the North creating his own vision of historiography derived from the poetry. Having adopted such interpretation the problem with the text of Lilla Weneda, read solely from perspectives of the romantic theory of the conquest, remains supposedly in the accordance with the fantasy of the poet – sine solutione