Kresowość Stanisława Vincenza

Stanisław Vincenz’s Borderlands Stanisław Vincenz oeuvre, the cycle entitled On the High Uplands, in particular, enriched the borderlands’ tradition with original and separate elements. What is most important for the writer in the history of the borderlands is the multiethnic and multilinguistic social tissue. What emerges to the foreground in his cycle of essays, Dialogi lwowskie [Lviv Dialogues], is the memory of people who considered this city as the top intellectual metropolis of the multinational Polish Republic. The provincial borderland character of Kolomyia and Krivorivnia in Vincenz’s works was subject to the polyphony of cultures within local communities. His hometown, Sloboda Rungurska, became a space of artistic freedom and activity. Borderlands understood in cultural terms were an axiological category, which combined myths and phantasms of Christianity, Polishness in its most noble form and heroic life lived by the ethos of gentry and knighthood. Vincenz’s understanding of the Borderlands touches on axiology, with reference to the Jagiellonian tradition, however, it also transgresses it on the ontological and ethical planes.