Beniowski
Beniowski is an epic verse by the Polish romantic Juliusz Słowacki .
The work is called "Digressionsepos" (a new creation in the German language from the French of digression = digression, wandering around). Important pioneers of this genre are, for example, “ Der Rasende Roland ” by Ariost or “ Don Juan ” by Lord Byron .
The model for Beniowski was the exciting life of the adventurer Moritz Benjowski , who was deported to Siberia by the Russian Tsarina Catherine II in 1768 after the war in the Bar Confederation .
German translation
- Juliusz Słowacki : Beniowski. A poetry. Translated and edited by Hans-Peter Hoelscher-Obermaier. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-518-41093-8 ( Polish Library ).