Instytut Kultury Regionalnej i Badań Literackich im. Franciszka Karpińskiego
Abstract
This article analyses the thematic presence of the January Uprising in Stefan
Żeromski’s prose and journalism, particularly his novel Uroda życia (1912) and two
short stories. It is thus contended that the writer created a mythology of an eternally
lasting uprising, demanding its realization in Poles’ varied activities in the years following
1863. Żeromski equally ensured the immortality of the uprising, which would
result in the nation’s rebirth that had been made possible by the heroism of the fighters
and their inheritors