Real and Mental Peregrinations of Kazimierz Brakoniecki. A Few Thoughts around the Poetic Volume "Misterium"

Abstract

The starting point of this article was made the poetic volume Misterium by Kazimierz Brakoniecki. Attention was paid to the importance of peregrination in its realistic dimension by recalling the places indicated by the poet. In the reconstruction of the atmosphere of peregrination, the methods of it were mentioned. Travel impressions were the starting point for tracking changes made in Warmia and Mazury from the perspective of a representative of the post-war generation. Attempts were also made to familiarize the metaphysical dimension of travel, i.e. the cultural functioning of “metaphysical specifics”, as Brakoniecki calls the city and the villages of these lands, as a testimony of a “dialogue vision of the common presence of people and nations, the dead and living, myths and symbols”. The concept of new regionalism (modern regionalism) of Kazimierz Brakoniecki and his ways to include a small homeland in the prospect of a Great History were also referred.