„The royalpride in great distress". The experience of emigration in Leo Gomolitzky’s poetic perspective Cover Image

„Królewska duma z wielkiej niepomyślności”. Doświadczenie emigracji w poetyckiej perspektywie Lwa Gomolickiego
„The royalpride in great distress". The experience of emigration in Leo Gomolitzky’s poetic perspective

Author(s): Jolanta Brzykcy
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Leo Gomolitzky; poetry; emigration; home; rebirth;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the functioning of emigration theme in the poetry of Leo Gomolitzky(1903-1988) - one of the greatest representative of Russian diaspora in Poland before World WarII. Some poetical texts and two poems (Warsaw, The emigre poem) has been analized in it, in thecontext of bilingualism, exterritoriality and biculturalism - categories, that had a strong influenceon Gomolitzky’s life and works.In the analized texts Gomolitzky shows his own experiences and thoughts caused by theemigration, he also diagnoses people’s attitudes toward exile. From the viewpoint of the poet theemigration is, undoubtedly, the catastrophe, but at the same time Gomolitzky interpretates it as a chanceof the moral renewal, spiritual rebirth.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XXI
  • Page Range: 133-144
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish