Circling around a chasm. Variety of endings of “Nie-Boska komedia” and eternal questions

Abstract

In the article, interpretative attention was paid to varieties of Nie-Boska komedia by Zygmunt Krasiński, especially its different endings. This is made possible by the latest edition of the drama, edited by Magdalena Bizior-Dombrowska (Toruń 2017). The editorial material allows a closer look at Krasiński’s direct, almost organic relationship with the created work, eternally unfinished, as it were. It also makes particularly vivid the persistence of questions related to the direction of human society and the hope that there is, however, some way out of the circle in which hatred, crime, death are constantly triumphant. The various variants of the ending could be looked at as still unsatisfactory forms of “positive” answer that such hope exists, despite the non-obviousness of both positive and negative human values. Such a perspective allows one to look at and contemporary dreams/concerns organizing the imaginarium of 21^st century human.