„In vino veritas”?
“In Vino Veritas”?

Or How to Read “Monachomachia” and “Antymonachomachia” (“Antimonachomachia”)

Summary/Abstract: The paper suggests such a reading of Ignacy Krasicki’s two mock heroic poems, namely “Monachomachia” and “Antymonachomachia” (“Antimonachomachia)” that, probably in accordance with the poet’s intention, moves the pieces’ allegedly satirical meaning in reference to the monk society to the background, and exhibits their artistic mastery, still vivid comedy, complexity of communicative and intertextual relationships. The author of the article shows the similarities and differences between the pieces, marking that the first piece and its reception is the theme of the second. Above all, however, attention is focused on the present in the poems attitude of the poet to the world which reveals manifold feeling of disagreement, e.g. between language and reality, cause/intention and effect, oftentimes also the absurdity and unsurpassed ridiculousness of human stances. The key factor here is also, especially in the case of “Antymonachomachia,” variously conceived truth.

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