Słabość poezji. Glosy do diatryby „Przeciw poetom” Witolda Gombrowicza
Weakness of Poetry. Glosses to the Diatribe “Przeciw poetom” by Witold Gombrowicz

Summary/Abstract: The author focuses on a constellation of texts on Gombrowicz’s diatribe: "Przeciw poetom", including well-known, appreciated, and oft-commented sketches and notes, such as a quasi-letter by Czesław Miłosz with its impertinent beginning: ”Mr Gombrowicz!”. Ignored texts include a polemic by Józef Łobodowski. Finally, there are poems, two of which (Komentarz by Stanisław Baliński and "Wstęp do Traktatu poetyckiego" by Miłosz) were subjected by the author of the sketch to contextual examination, thus showing the manner in which they embark upon a subtle polemic with the Gombrowicz diatribe and, at the same time, render the weakness of poetry its paradoxical, but also deeply human strength.

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