Image and Text. Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Na wysokiej górze. Commedia della lingua in Iwona Chmielewska’s Illustrations Cover Image

Obraz i tekst. Na wysokiej górze. Commedia della lingua Krystyny Miłobędzkiej w ilustracjach Iwony Chmielewskiej
Image and Text. Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Na wysokiej górze. Commedia della lingua in Iwona Chmielewska’s Illustrations

Author(s): Seweryna Wysłouch
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Krystyna Miłobędzka; Iwona Chmielewska; picture book; word play; epiphany;

Summary/Abstract: A fragment of Krystyna Miłobędzka’s theatre play for children Na wysokiej górze. Commedia della lingua (1990) was published separately (2014, 2017) as a work of both Krystyna Miłobędzka and Iwona Chmielewska, an author of picture books. Chmielewska tones down the word play in Miłobędzka’s text. Instead, she introduces images of the poet at different ages, depicted in contemplative poses, and presents the character’s epiphanic experience beyond time and space. The images and the text constitute separate, sylleptic sequences. The meditative atmosphere of Chmielewska’s illustrations adequately conveys the worldview of Miłobędzka – a “linguistic” poet, who refers to the poetry of the Far East.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 15-30
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish