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Czy Aleksander Wat był poetą?
Was Aleksander Wat a poet?

Author(s): Piotr Pietrych
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
Keywords: Aleksander Wat;poetry;biography;poetic self-awareness

Summary/Abstract: The provocative title is not supposed to question the significance of poetry in the works of Aleksander Wat, but to suggest the singularity of his writing. Now a valued author of poetry, Wat only late recognised his poetry as his most important achievement. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the declaration of being a poet, which he made in his last years, has an other side to it, namely the feeling of a non-fulfilment as a writer, which in the biography of the author of Mediterranean Poems did not come to light with incurable pain disease but sooner, due to a failed attempt to return to the original literary activity that Wat took up after returning to Poland in 1946.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2017
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 90-97
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish