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Szymborska raz jeszcze. O książce "Niepojęty przypadek. O poezji Wisławy Szymborskiej" pod redakcją Joanny Grądziel-Wójcik i Krzysztofa Skibskiego
Szymborska Once Again

Author(s): Tomasz Cieślak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Studies of Literature, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Szymborska Wisława; filologia; krytyka literacka; współczesna poezja polska

Summary/Abstract: The review discusses the volume Unthinkable coincidence. On Poetry by Wisława Szymborska edited by Joanna Grądziel-Wójcik and Krzysztof Skibski. In six parts of the book the authors of Unthinkable coincidence… point out nad investigate the most important issues present in the poetic work of the Nobel Prize laureate: the anthropological perspective, the unanthropocentric model of humanity and human condition, existential and metaphysical problems, philosophical contexts, irony, figures of memory, silence, uncertainty and helplessness, models of poetics and metrics of Szymborska’s poems. The last two parts of the volume focus on translations of Szymborska’s poems into English, Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak, on Szymborska’s translations of French baroque poets and on her images in Polish media form 1995 to 2012 and her posthumous traces in German newspapers.In the conclusion the reviewer describes the volume as the first really significant Polish collection of essays on Szymborska’s poetry since her death in 2012.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 111-119
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish