Title: Źródła kreacji postaci Jerzego Paramonowa w poświęconych mu tekstach kultury
Abstract: Jerzy Paramonow is a criminal who remains a hero of an anonymous barnyard ballad inthe social imagination. For years he has been existing in a very narrow cultural circulation,however, recently the creators of popular music have reminded the society of this persona.Numerous versions of Paramonow’s history - regardless of the differences resulting fromthe immanent aesthetics of the music groups and media – present the “unity of imagination”which was the main source both for the anonymous ballad and its aestheticized version.The most important include:- anchoring the fictional pattern in songs of city news;- aesthetics of violence typical for the fair music;- creation of the main character in a similar manner as in the stories about brigands.At the same time, embedding these cultural texts in the tradition of anonymous creationsof the past centuries impresses the durability of some specific ideas. Theoretically, they areupdated and adjusted to the changing social context of the audience, however, their essenceand function in literary communication remains unchanged.