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"The sweetness of Italy, the sweetness of the towns of Tuscany" - Italian journeys of Adam Zagajewski

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Najgeburska K.

Anthropos?

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2018

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issue 27 W ruchu

205-216

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This article is an attempt to describe and interpret the journeys through Italy in the works of Adam Zagajewski. The object of my considerations is the figure of a traveler, whose condition is determinated by the fact of movement, being in motion, and Italian cities visited by Zagajewski, for some reasons important on the map of his autobiographical places, with reference to the category proposed by Małgorzata Czermińska. The aim of the research is not only to present Italy seen through the eyes of the author of Another Beauty, but also to compare his individual reflection on that country with myths and images perpetuated in culture. The perspective of tourist and flâneur interpenetrating in the poet’s Italian city-texts allow to look at the cities more broadly: they become a pretext for a deeper reflection on the essence of traveling, passing and perduring, the historicity of places and their peculiar melancholy. An important issue is also the category of strangeness, the feeling of being-not-in-place, that accompanies the cognizing subject, while strolling through the cities of Italy, which largely determines their literary representations in Zagajewski's body of work.

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POMIĘDZY BEZDOMNOŚCIĄ A PRÓBĄ ZADOMOWIENIA NA NOWYM KONTYNENCIE: ADAMA ZAGAJEWSKIEGO SPOTKANIA Z WIELKOMIEJSKĄ METROPOLIĄ

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Najgeburska K.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

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2019

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vol. 17

55-66

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Artykuł podejmuje refleksję nad tekstową reprezentacją Houston w twórczości Adama Zagajewskiego, co staje się pretekstem do zastanowienia nad specyfiką amerykańskich miast oraz ich wizerunkiem utrwalonym w kulturze europejskiej, jak również próbą skonfrontowania mitu z rzeczywistością. Kluczowymi pojęciami dla niniejszych badań literackich, wzbogaconych o perspektywę antropologiczną, są: zaproponowana przez Małgorzatę Czermińską kategoria miejsca autobiograficznego oraz kategorie obcości, wyobcowania i bezdomności rozważane w kontekście tożsamości. Celem artykułu jest również zbadanie, jak przestrzeń miejska oraz dynamiczny rozwój cywilizacyjny wpływają na kondycję jednostki, a w szczególności emigranta, przybysza zza oceanu.

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The article reflects on the text representation of Houston in the literary works of Adam Zagajewski, which is also a pretext to reflect on the specificity of American cities and their image embedded in European culture, as well as an attempt to confront the myth with reality. The key concepts for my literary researches augmented with the anthropological perspective are the category of autobiographical place proposed by Małgorzata Czermińska and the categories of strangeness, alienation, homelessness considered in the context of identity. The aim of my paper is also to show how the urban space and the dynamic development of civilization affect the condition of the individual, and in particular an emigrant, the newcomer from the ocean.

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Miejsca, związki międzyludzkie, trauma. Dom, sen i gry dziecięce Juliana Kornhausera oraz Dwa miasta Adama Zagajewskiego

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Tomczyk D.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2021

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issue 11

167-176

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The subject of the article is Adam Zagajewski’s Dwa miasta and Dom, sen i gry dziecięce. Opowieść sentymentalna by Julian Kornhauser. These autobiographical texts were written in the 1990s. Both Zagajewski and Kornhauser grew up in Gliwice because their family members settled in Upper Silesia as a result of World War II and later migrations. The author of the article claims that both books can be considered as examples of a literary attempt to overcome collective trauma—trauma understood as a multi-faceted entanglement in the consequences of World War II and experienced by people growing up in Upper Silesia. The two writers expressed their opposition to oppression, which in the times of the Polish People’s Republic meant top-down, governmental attempts to make the state homogeneous by, for example, universalising people’s experience or using slogans and myths for ideological and political purposes. In both books, literary opposition manifests itself in the way in which the narrators perceive specific elements of Gliwice. The city becomes both a participant and an observer of the changes taking place in the world. The history of individuals and entire generations turns out to be readable, for example, from the architecture and special places in the city.

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ABOUT POLISH POETRY AFTER 1989 (DEFICIENCIES AND ‘SURPLUSES’): AN ESSAY IN LITERARY CRITICISM

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Kuczera-Chachulska B.

Colloquia Litteraria

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2017

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issue 1

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The article addresses selected issues about Polish poetry after 1989. The author distinguishes between the poetry of ‘a literary movement’ and the poetry fulfilling the criteria of a veritable work of art. She critically com - ments on the selected works by well-known authors who function as part of an unspoken canon; she portrays the poetry of Paweł Marcinkiewicz as one of the most attractive proposals coming from the younger generation, whereas from among the classics she picks texts by Czesław Miłosz and Janusz St. Pasierb.

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Nuta człowiecza. Uwagi na marginesie 'Asymetrii'

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Próchniak P.

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2014

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vol. 68

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issue 3-4(306-307)

249-253

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The author conducted a thorough analysis and interpretation of poems from 'Asymetria', a volume by Adam Zagajewski (2014). In order to better extract and enhance the prime motifs and motives of Zagajewski’s poetry their meanings were depicted against the backdrop of statements made by W. G. Sebald about the potential and tasks of literature. Zagajewski has a high regard for Sebald’s prose but vehemently protested against the pessimistic vision of the world contained in his books. While accentuating the significant differences in both writers’ perception of reality, the article ultimately draws attention to a prominent issue shared by them: a dream of literature conceived as restitution.

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TESTAMENT NOWEJ FALI, CZYLI O DYSKUSJI NA TEMAT CZARODZIEJSKIEJ GÓRY RAZ JESZCZE

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Nowaczewski A.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

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2017

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issue 15

167-180

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The discussion between three poets of the Polish New Wave (Generation 68), Stanisław Barańczak, Krzysztof Karasek and Adam Zagajewski about The Magic Mountain marked the end of the stage of group manifestations of their generation’s ideas. It also defined the attitude of Polish intellectuals against totalitarianism until 1989 – Mann’s fictional character, Settembrini, became their patron, while the attitude of Krzysztof Karasek, who identified himself with the figure of Hans Castorp, became a forerunner to the protagonists of the “brulion generation” poetry. The legacy of the New Wave is so much more diverse than it is commonly spoken of.

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„Try to praise the mutilated world”: Adam Zagajewski and the poetry of 9/11

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Cavanagh C., Cavanagh C.

Ruch Literacki

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2020

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issue 6

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Opisać ogień: o pożytkach niehermeneutycznego projektu H.U. Gumbrechta dla badań nad wierszem

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Gorczyńska M.

Forum Poetyki

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2021

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issue 25

104-123

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The article is a proposal for opening verse studies to the problem of presence, on the basis of Hans Urlich Gumrecht’s project of a nonhermeneutic humanities. The author presents the limitations of a semantically oriented versology, simultaneously pointing to the possibility of a continuation of formal-structural tradition of studies on verse, following non-semantic threads in the works of Polish theorists: Janusz Sławiński, Lucylla Pszczołowska i Teresa Dobrzyńska. Tomasz Różycki’s poem Panny nieroztropne [Foolish virgins] become an exemplum for the ensuing considerations, while two intuitions of contemporary poets inspire theoretical considerations. One is Eugenio Montale’s perverse thesis on the hopeless semanticity of poetry and Adam Zagajewski’s Nietzschean claim that versologists take care of fire rather than ashes, i.e., investigate living, aesthetically influential verse forms.

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Artykuł jest propozycją otwarcia badań wersologicznych na problematykę obecności w oparciu o projekt niehermeneutycznej humanistyki Hansa Urlicha Gumbrechta. Autorka przedstawia ograniczenia wersologii zorientowanej semantycznie, zarazem jednak wskazuje możliwość kontynuacji formalno-strukturalnej tradycji badań nad wierszem, śledząc niesemantyczne wątki w pracach polskich teoretyków: Janusza Sławińskiego, Lucylli Pszczołowskiej i Teresy Dobrzyńskiej. Funkcję exemplum pełni wiersz Tomasza Różyckiego Panny nieroztropne, rozważaniom teoretycznym patronują zaś dwie przenikliwe intuicje współczesnych poetów: przewrotna teza Eugenio Montalego o beznadziejnej semantyczności poezji oraz nietzscheański z ducha postulat Adama Zagajewskiego, by wersolodzy nie zajmowali się popiołem, lecz ogniem, tj. badali żywe, estetycznie oddziałujące formy wierszowe.

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„Film nowofalowy”. Rola kina w poezji pokolenia ’68

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Czaja K.

Forum Poetyki

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2021

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issue 23

50-71

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The paper presents the role of film in the poetry of Generation ’68 – mostly by Stanisław Barańczak, but also Julian Kornhauser, Ewa Lipska, and Adam Zagajewski. The New Wave poets referred to actors (such as Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, the duo Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Ali McGraw), characters, titles, scenes, as well as experiences and conclusions related to film genres from cinema and (less commonly) TV productions. It allowed to verbalize or even “translate” issues regarding ethical choices, the condition of a man lost in a clash with the world, (and often doomed to fail in that clash), evanescence, and attempts at escaping from its ruthless rules into sensual categories.

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Artykuł prezentuje rolę filmu w poezji pokolenia ’68 – głównie Stanisława Barańczaka, ale także Juliana Kornhausera, Ewy Lipskiej i Adama Zagajewskiego. Nowofalowi twórcy sięgali w wierszach po postacie aktorów (m.in. Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, duet Laurel i Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, Ali McGraw), bohaterów, tytuły, sceny, gatunki filmowe oraz związane z kinem czy, rzadziej, produkcjami telewizyjnymi przeżycia i wnioski. Pozwalało to werbalizować, wręcz „tłumaczyć” na zmysłowe kategorie kwestie dotyczące wyborów etycznych, kondycji człowieka zagubionego w zderzeniu ze światem i nieraz z góry skazanego w tym starciu na porażkę, przemijania oraz prób ominięcia jego bezlitosnych praw.

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Z dziejów sporu o piękno – Oda do urny greckiej Johna Keatsa i jej polscy czytelnicy

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Rabizo-Birek M.

Przegląd Humanistyczny

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2014

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issue 2(443)

7-18

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The article considers one of the junctures of the continuing debate over beauty in contemporary culture since the advent of Modernism. It is linked to the growing interest in Poland in the work and ideas of John Keats a leading figure of the second generation of English Romantic poets. His poems (in particular the famous Ode on a Grecian Urn) and reflections on poetry in his letters are increasingly being translated, studied, and interpreted; indeed, he has overtaken in popularity his contemporaries Byron and Shelley, who until recently were much better known in Poland. Keats has become one of the patrons of the aesthetic strain in Polish literature, represented in this article by Stanisław Brzozowski, Czesław Miłosz, the poets of the emigré Kontynenty group (Bogdan Czaykowski, Andrzej Busza, Adam Czerniawski) and Adam Zagajewski; while the main adversary – it is argued – is the anti-aesthete and moralist Tadeusz Różewicz, who chose as his ally in the campaign against beauty the nineteenth-century poet Cyprian Norwid

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O POLSKIEJ POEZJI PO 1989 ROKU (BRAKI I „NADDATKI”) – SZKIC KRYTYCZNOLITERACKI

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Kuczera-Chachulska B.

Colloquia Litteraria

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2015

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vol. 19

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issue 2

6-20

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The article addresses selected issues about Polish poetry after 1989. The author distinguishes between the poetry of ‘a literary movement’ and the poetry fulfilling the criteria of a veritable work of art. She critically com - ments on the selected works by well-known authors who function as part of an unspoken canon; she portrays the poetry of Paweł Marcinkiewicz as one of the most attractive proposals coming from the younger generation, whereas from among the classics she picks texts by Czesław Miłosz and Janusz St. Pasierb.

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[Rev.:] Zofia Zarębianka, Czytanie sacrum, Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich, Instytut Wydawniczy „Maximum”, Kraków-Rzym 2008, 18 s., seria: Myśli ocalone. Seria Filozoficzno-Humanistyczna, pod redakcją Tadeusza Sławka, tom V.

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Tytko M. M.

Religious and Sacred Poetry: An International Quarterly of Religion, Culture and Education

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2013

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issue 1(1)

141-144

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An author is a Polish professor of literature at the Jagiellonian Unversity in Cracow. The author shows in her book entitled The Reading "Sacred" some essays on literature and "sacred", especially she describes some Polish poetry and prose and literary letters from 20th century. She focuses on the problem hermeneutics of a text, comparatistics of literature and methodology of literature. There are many chapters on theme Polish poetry or prose, e.g. about such authors as Stanisław Barańczak, Teresa Ferenc, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Julia Hartwig, Zbigniew Herbert, Zbigniew Jankowski, Wojciech Kudyba, Maria Kuncewiczowa, Czesław Miłosz, Joanna Pollakówna, Tadeusz Różewicz, Wisława Szymborska, Marcin Świetlicki, Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyła, Adam Zagajewski. There are some essays about foreign (e.g. French, German, Russian) authors of literature in the context of ‘sacred’: Paul Auster, Georges Bernanos, Josif Brodski, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Merton, Rainer Maria Rilke.

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"The sweetness of Italy, the sweetness of the towns of Tuscany" - Italian journeys of Adam Zagajewski

POMIĘDZY BEZDOMNOŚCIĄ A PRÓBĄ ZADOMOWIENIA NA NOWYM KONTYNENCIE: ADAMA ZAGAJEWSKIEGO SPOTKANIA Z WIELKOMIEJSKĄ METROPOLIĄ

Miejsca, związki międzyludzkie, trauma. Dom, sen i gry dziecięce Juliana Kornhausera oraz Dwa miasta Adama Zagajewskiego

ABOUT POLISH POETRY AFTER 1989 (DEFICIENCIES AND ‘SURPLUSES’): AN ESSAY IN LITERARY CRITICISM

Nuta człowiecza. Uwagi na marginesie 'Asymetrii'

TESTAMENT NOWEJ FALI, CZYLI O DYSKUSJI NA TEMAT CZARODZIEJSKIEJ GÓRY RAZ JESZCZE

„Try to praise the mutilated world”: Adam Zagajewski and the poetry of 9/11

Opisać ogień: o pożytkach niehermeneutycznego projektu H.U. Gumbrechta dla badań nad wierszem

„Film nowofalowy”. Rola kina w poezji pokolenia ’68

Z dziejów sporu o piękno – Oda do urny greckiej Johna Keatsa i jej polscy czytelnicy

O POLSKIEJ POEZJI PO 1989 ROKU (BRAKI I „NADDATKI”) – SZKIC KRYTYCZNOLITERACKI

[Rev.:] Zofia Zarębianka, Czytanie sacrum, Stowarzyszenie Pisarzy Polskich, Instytut Wydawniczy „Maximum”, Kraków-Rzym 2008, 18 s., seria: Myśli ocalone. Seria Filozoficzno-Humanistyczna, pod redakcją Tadeusza Sławka, tom V.