The dark sting of degenerate nature. Sketch of the dark-romantic inspirations in Wojciech Smarzowski’s Rose

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The dark sting of degenerate nature. Sketch of the dark-romantic inspirationsin Wojciech Smarzowski’s Rose

The text presents Polish dark romanticism as an important source of inspiration for the images of violence, includ- ing sexual violence, in Wojciech Smarzowskis Rose. The author reveals the mechanisms of this inspiration: visual, dramatic, intellectual, and refers to specific literary texts, from the Romantic era and later, by Antoni Malczewski, Seweryn Goszczyński, Juliusz Słowacki and Włodzimierz Odojewski.