The article gathers and discusses opinions on Lambro and Kordian formulated in Polish literary criticism in the 1833‒1864 period. Thus, the specific character of critical discourse has been recreated and an explanation has been given of what the early reception of the aforementioned works consisted in. Thanks to this, it was verified whether pre-textual traces could be found in the opinions formulated in the past which would provide a cause for the reinterpretation of Lambro and Kordian in the context of affective criticism. In the latter case, I am particularly interested in the maladic context, affects and defects, senses and corporeality.
