„Gloria victis” Elizy Orzeszkowej

The subject of the article is the Gloria victis novella by Eliza Orzeszkowa (1910). The author points out tensions between Romanticism idea of uprisings (i.e. the January Uprising of 1863 in Poland), which is the main theme of the novella, and naturalistic style of narration as well as modern ways of artistic expression. She notes many consequences of using nature’s narrative point of view (e.g. wind, trees): reference to the palingenetic myth, impressionist and expressionist techniques, rough naturalism in the death and battle scenes. She also showshow Orzeszkowa emphasises the dichotomy between the history (obliviousness possibility) and biology (cycle of matter).