The Lyrical Situation and the Constructivist Division of Nature and Culture: Julian Przyboś, “Z Tatr” [From the Tatra Mountains] Cover Image
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Sytuacja liryczna a konstruktywistyczny podział na Naturę i Kulturę: Julian Przyboś, Z Tatr
The Lyrical Situation and the Constructivist Division of Nature and Culture: Julian Przyboś, “Z Tatr” [From the Tatra Mountains]

Author(s): Krzysztof Obremski
Subject(s): Poetry, Polish Literature, Philosophy of Language, Hermeneutics
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Julian Przyboś; Marzena Skotnicówna; Lida Skotnicówna; Zamarła Turnia Mountain;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents an interpretation of Julian Przyboś’s poem “Z Tatr” [From the Tatra Mountains]. Obremski focuses on two problems. First, in Przyboś’s poem the Skotnicówna sisters seem to have exchanged positions – the aerial lift operator Lida takes Marzena’s supportive position and vice versa; through the medium of the poem Lida’s feelings become Marzena’s, Julian Przyboś’s as well as the readers’. Second, Nature and Culture seem to speak their own mutually incomprehensible languages. The discursivity of the Tatra-mountain order excludes that which is inappropriate; at the same time, Przyboś’s tendency to present emotions as equivalent has transformed the so-called animal fear of death into the matter of the poetic art of language.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 235-252
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish