Lenkų dvaro Žemaitijoje įvaizdis Magdalenos Komorowskos z Nalęcz-Gorskich prisiminimuose

LT„Sugrįžimas į Žemaitiją“ - tai savotiškas vadovas po individualią atmintį, kuriame pabrėžiama tos atminties svarba šeimos funkcionavimui. Šiuo atveju praeities išsaugojimas remiasi idealizavimu, o atmintis yra stiprus apsaugos mechanizmas nuo šeimos praeities užmaršties. Knygoje dominuojantis vaidmuo tenka „prarasto pasaulio“ įamžinimui. Atmintis pasirenka tam tikrus vaizdus ir laikui bėgant suteikia vertę ir svarbą praeičiai. Gali ją paryškinti ar susilpninti, gali perkelti akcentus. Autorė savo prisiminimams suteikia emocinių bruožų. Sukurti idealizuotą praeities vaizdą „skatino emocinės gynybos poreikis išgyvenant dėl prarastų gimtųjų namų - tobulo „laimės krašto“, o jo kūrimui M. Komorowska pasitelkia, be kita ko, iškilių lenkų rašytojų sukurtų literatūrinių vaizdų mitinę jėgą. [Iš straipsnio, p. 107]

ENThe book ‘Return to Žemaitija’, by Magdalena Komorowska of the Nalecz-Gorski line, contains the author’s memories of the beginning of the 20th century, her happy childhood and early youth on Polish estates in Žemaitija, told in her own words. Komorowska describes her close and distant family, her grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. She also does not forget the domestic servants and neighbours. The subject of her descriptions are the manors known to her: apart from the family residence at Szaw- kiany, the manors in Birzyniany and Dzuginiany. Thanks to the detailed descriptions, the reader is presented with an opportunity to learn about Polish estates in Lithuania and their everyday life in the early 20th century: weekdays and holidays, various household chores, ways of spending free time, activities for parents, children and the numerous residents, and servants. The main approach to describing life in Žemaitija taken by Komorowska is idealisation, of which the basis is the desire to record through her memoirs the life of the no-longer-extant Polish landowning class. Komorowska emphasises the value of having Žemaitijan roots: for her, the Žemaitijan landowner is better, more hard-working, and virtuous. In addition, Komorowska repeats in her memoirs the opinion that formed in the 19th century about the civilising role of the nobility and its resources, which, according to her, was the main source of income for local residents. In her idealisation of the world, she describes, among other things, the mythical power of the literary icons created by prominent Polish writers, such as Adam Mickiewicz and Henryk Sienkiewicz. [From the publication]