This article is based – on a reading of Erwin Kruk’s Rondo, Kronika z Mazur, Spadek. Zapiski mazurskie 2007–2008 (Roundabout: A Masurian chronicle; Legacy. Masurian notes, 2007–2008). It explores the evolution of the writer’s autobiographical attitude, which became particularly clear after 1989 and it inscribed itself in the trend of “re-self-presentations”. Another aim of this study is to illustrate the formal and artistic changes in the way of using autobiographical materials.
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Artykuł przedstawia ewolucję na przykładzie utworów Erwina Kruka Rondo, Kronika z Mazur i Spadek. Zapiski mazurskie 2007–2008 – przedstawia ewoluowanie postawy autobiograficznej pisarza, wyraźnie ujawniającej się po 1989 roku i wpisującej się w nurt tak zwanych ponownych autoprezentacji. Celem autorki jest też wskazanie zmian formalnych i artystycznych w sposobie wykorzystania tworzywa biograficznego.
This article presents interpretations of Erwin Kruk’s late poems included into his last two volumesof poetry: Znikanie [Vanishing] and Nieobecność [Absense]. In the course of analysis, the main themesof the senile poetry are considered: memory, evanescence and death. The puer senex theme in relationto the lyrical ego also receives the author’s attention as well as the regional context of Kruk’s poetry,i.e. its connections with the history of Masuria. However, the author notices the universality of thesepoems, as they convey a message which goes far beyond the limitations of regionalism.
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