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DOI 10.12887/36-2023-2-142-10



Agnieszka CZECHOWICZ, “The Fickleness of Human Affairs”: On Coincidence, as Seen in Wacałw Potocki’s Syloret


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The article considers coincidence as a necessary element in the construction of the plot of an early modern romance epic (an unexpected complication, a remarkable coincidence of events) and as a factor that helps the author develop the didactic message of his work. The reflection is based on the example of Syloret, a romance by Wacław Potocki, a poem influenced by Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae, and his idea of coincidences and varieties of luck as tools through which Divine Providence works. In his poem, Potocki shows the main protagonist’s struggle with not infrequently malevolent fortune, which turns out to be a force that tests his constancy, but also leads him towards the path of self-knowledge.


Keywords: Wacław Potocki, romance epic, fortune, Providence


Contact: Department of Old Polish Literature, Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
E-mail: czechow@kul.pl



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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887