The article aims at a discussion of Iosip Brodsky’s literary, artistic as well as personal connections with Poland and Poles. The poet’s admiration for Polish language and especially his fascination with the literature of the Renaissance period (Kochanowski, Sęp-Szarzyński, Rej and others) and modern poetry (Miłosz, Herbert, Szymborska and others) have been one of the main focuses of the article. The author highlights that fact that thanks to the presence of Polish motifs the poetry of Iosip Brodsky, in the times of important events in the history of Poland, had a special appeal for Polish readers. Brodsky’s eminent friends associated with the Solidarity movement, such as Barańczak, Drawicz and Woroszylski, pointed to its intertextual and, at times, documentary character. The article offers also an insight into Brodsky’s friendship with Miłosz, the friendship which greatly contributed to the Russian poet’s fascination with Polish culture.
The aim of this article is to approach a way by which the author construes semantisation of the mother-woman in a mythological-biblical manner, taking into account a neosentimental context of poetics of the analysed text, including the basic motif of the text which is a child’s death. Apart from that, we are referring to an archetypical image of a woman present in Russian folkloristic tradition as well as in a classical 19th century one, especially the image of “a little man”. A basic idea of the short story is not only a description of a tragic calamity, but also, in connection with the text being situated in the aforementioned tradition and its traits of dialogue with it, adding new contents, a proposal of their new interpretation, mainly considering a mother’s image.
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