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Na Ujbackim stepie... Kreacje Tatarów w poematach Tomasza Augusta Olizarowskiego

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The article presents literary images of Tatars, which can be found in two poetic novels by the forgotten Romantic author, Tomasz August Olizarowski (1811-1879). The first of them, printed in 1836, is Krzyż w Peredylu. Pieśń wołyńska (The Cross in Peredil. A Volhynian Song), published for the second time in a revised version as Topir-Góra. Powieść wołyńska. Wedle miejscowego podania (Topir-Mountain. A Volhynian Novel. According to a Local Folk Tale). The second one, which in its title already refers to the Tatars, is Car-dziewica. Powieść tatarska (The Virgin-Tsar. A Tatar Novel), written in 1866. In Krzyż w Peredylu and in Topir-Góra, the poet shows Tatar people as representatives of the nocturnal, Romantic side of the world. In Car-dziewica, on the other hand, the barbarie methods of action used by the Tatars are recalled in order to expose the hypocritical laws, which the Western civilization is ruled by; the civilization which, like all great civilizations (at least according to the poet) is becoming monstrous, and transforms into a bloodthirsty beast, devoid of spirit, abandoned on the arena of a frenetic spectacle of history.