Z perspektywy uczniów Hipokratesa.

Przyczynki do obrazu życia literacko-kulturalnego po rozbiorach na podstawie pamiętników Józefa Franka i Stanisława Morawskiego

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present selected aspects of literary culture in the Russian partition in the first half of the 19th century, based on the diaries of two doctors – Józef Frank and Stanisław Morawski. Written with a skilled pen, often with a great deal of humour, they provide many valuable details about literary life in Lithuania in the post-partition era. They emerge as excellently painted portraits of authors who remained in the shadow of recognized literary authorities, and whose texts enjoyed great popularity in their time and today have exceptional documental value for their era. The aforementioned memoirs also touch upon many other important issues that supplement our knowledge, e.g. about scientific societies, theatrical undertakings, the book trade and the periodical market at that time. These documents show that their authors – physicians – were part of the mainstream of national and cultural life and had very broad humanistic interests, and were also interested in literature and writers, leaving many important and characteristic observations in them.