ELEGISTA O TWÓRCZOŚCI ADAMA ZAGAJEWSKIEGO
ELEGIST ON ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI'S OEUVRE

Summary/Abstract: Juchniewicz in his paper traces the Shoah theme in Adam Zagajewski's work, when analysing the poet's selected verse and essayistic texts published from the 1980s. The study consists of several parts: the first contains Zagajewski's poetry reception, while the remaining ones reveal his interest in the Holocaust. When opinions about the poetry's affirmativity and Zagajewski's tendency towards aesthetisation are confronted with poems of interventional and critical character, certain statements of the author remain unnoticed. Giving those statements, Zagajewski takes up the role of not only the poet who speaks in the name of the absent/murdered, but also as a representative of the postmemory generation. This aspect proves vital in searching for the formulas and modes to approach the past through the medium of imagination as a superior category that allows to translocate between temporal planes and to sympathise with the various groups of victims.

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