"Pszczoły" Leopolda Staffa i Bolesława Leśmiana. Paralele i dysonanse

• Authors: Bartłomiej Borek

Title variants

EN

Leopold Staff’s and Bolesław Leśmian’s "Bees". Parallels and Dissonances

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The text presents an interpretation of poetical pieces by Bolesław Leśmian and Leopold Staff with the same title: Pszczoły (“The Bees”). What constitutes the departure point for the said analyses is a prolific metaphor theme that has been present in interpretative discourse since Antiquity, namely that of the “bee-poet”, but also identifying those insects with the Death, the mystery of existence, and with the being, all of which facilitates the reading of these two forgotten poems of Polish modernism in terms of the sacred (sacrum) and existence as well as the identity of beings (the latter category is referred to in interpretation via the ship of Theseus paradox).

Keywords

PL

Bolesław Leśmian; Leopold Staff; Pszczoły

EN

Bolesław Leśmian; Leopold Staff; Pszczoły; bees; death; being; ship of Theseus

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Journal: Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2020-06-17

Contributors

author

Bartłomiej Borek

Identifiers

DOI

10.31261/SSP.2020.15.01