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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.