Fenomen wykładów lozańskich Adama Mickiewicza

The first part of the paper contains reflections on the phenomenon of creating the “text” of lectures as well as the embarrassing problem, usually silenced by biographers, that Mickiewicz forced the school curator of the Vilnius area, Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, to “confirm the untruth” stating that Mickiewicz, allegedly, graduated from the department of Classical Philology in the Imperator’s University of Vilnius obtaining master’s degree, whereas he only passed all (very detailed) final exams, but never wrote and defended his master thesis. The second part of the paper presents The Context of Province and Provincialism, which is partly an account from the exams and an interpretation of certain complexes linked to the place of origin and the current place of residence. In favourable circumstances the source of complexes transformed into a source of strength.