Premodernizm, dekonstrukcjonizm, „proteuszowość” Norwida

Summary The study focuses on the specific way of seeing Norwid and his works in the light of four Wiesław Rzońca’s treatises, significant and controversial among all Polish norwidologists’ studies: Norwid. The Poet of Writing. The Attempt of the Work Deconstruction (1995), Witkacy – Norwid. The Draft for the Deconstructional Comparatistics (1998), Norwid and Romantism in Poland (2005) and eventually Norwid’s Premodernism – on the Backgrounds of Literary Symbolism of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century (2013). Author of this sketch attempts to visualise the internal evolution of Rzońca as a scientist, the evolution that reflects his (Rzońca’s) permanent admiration to the deconstructional comparatistics. This one choice of research – strongly declarative – leaded Rzońca to the highly uncertain and riskful as well as to the inevitably inspiring and regenerating (explicitly for norwidology, implicitly for comparatistics) conclusions. The last Rzońca’s book concentrated on tracing the reminiscent motifs of Norwid’s writing, which may bring him together with the well-known masterpieces of European premodernism and modernism, finally confirms and simultaneously (in some meaning) ultimately ends the Rzońca’s postmodernist path of reading Norwid.