On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of awarding Władysław St. Reymont the Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated under the patronage of UNESCO, the Museum of Literature invites you to the exhibition "The Apparition. The Amazing Reymont", inspired by the lesser-known novel by the Nobel Prize winner entitled The Vampire.
The Opening Weekend of the exhibition "The Apparition. The Amazing Reymont" will last from 13th to 16th June. The programme is available at: https://muzeumliteratury.pl/wystawa-zjawa-niesamowity-reymont-weekend-otwarcie/
Summer 1894. Twenty-seven-year-old Władysław Reymont, accompanied by homeopath Józef Drzewiecki, sets off on a journey to London to participate in a congress of the Theosophical Society. A decade later, the memories from this journey would become the basis for the novella In Mists, published in installments in the Kurier Warszawski, which in 1911, enriched with several chapters and threads, including a new, more open ending, would be published under the title Vampire.
The narrative of Vampire is in line with the fears and anxieties of the turn of the century, the decadent mood of the era and the sense of the crisis of values of the civilization of that time. It is also an expression of the interests of Polish and foreign modernists, dealing with issues such as spiritualism, psychiatry, psychology, occultism and oneiricism.
These aspects are brought out in the exhibition Apparition. Incredible Reymont, which takes place on several levels. The first layer evokes the heroes and heroines of the novel: the writer Zenon, tossing between the demonic Daisy, the innocent Betsy and his former love Ada, his daughter Wandzia, as well as the mysterious panther Bagh and the London Fog. The next layer consists of works of art from the period around the time of the novel's premiere, commenting on its main themes. Among them are paintings by Wojciech Weiss, Bolesław Nawrocki, Mela Muter and Jacek Malczewski, sculptures by Konstanty Laszczka and Henryk Kunzek, as well as historical furniture from Reymont's Warsaw apartment.
The third and final layer consists of artistic objects and performances adapting Reymont's novel to the present day. The artists responsible for it are Rafał Dominik and Marta Ziółek, who prepared graphic and sculptural works especially for the exhibition, as well as a series of choreographic performances taking place in the exhibition spaces. The artists and performers take over the world of the novel and create a separate reality based on it, in which movement, object and texts enter into unexpected relationships.
The exhibition was created as part of the celebrations, under UNESCO patronage, of the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Władysław Reymont for his novel Chłopi. Co-financed by the Mazovian Voivodeship and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
source: Museum of Literature
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