Julian Przyboś’s Victory and The Defeat of Theory of Equivalence: A Professor of Middle School and a Pupil – a "Grey-haired Madcap" and a Daughter Cover Image

Juliana Przybosia zwycięstwo i przegrana teorii ekwiwalentyzowania: profesor gimnazjum i uczennica – „siwa świszczypała” i córeczka
Julian Przyboś’s Victory and The Defeat of Theory of Equivalence: A Professor of Middle School and a Pupil – a "Grey-haired Madcap" and a Daughter

Author(s): Krzysztof Obremski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
Keywords: equivalence; Julian Przyboś; the child

Summary/Abstract: Czesław Miłosz's diagnosis of Julian Przyboś's emotions, verbalized with the words “No madness has devoured his heart”, can be questioned: it can be negated with two biographical facts: Marzena Skotnicówna and Uta Przyboś (and two daughters from the first marriage). While the poem Z Tatr [From the Tatra Mountains] was a victory of the theory of equivalence, Poems for Uta and Poems and Pictures became its defeat. Only the love of a child caused that, in Przyboś's youth, the programmatic "shame of feelings" in old age was rejected by Słowiarz, who, in the poem The Child and the Peacock, called himself “a grey madcap”.

  • Issue Year: 62/2018
  • Issue No: 4-5
  • Page Range: 17-25
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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