A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics Cover Image

A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics
A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics

Author(s): Józef Maria Ruszar
Contributor(s): Filip Mazurczak (Translator)
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Higher Education , Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Zbigniew Herbert; The Portrait in Black Frames; “Hakeldama”; bookkeeping; economics as a literary subject; the new economic criticism;

Summary/Abstract: In Herbert’s essays and poems we find not only a wide range of economic problems, but also a real passion with which the author describes the economic fundaments of all civilizations. In the apocrypha The Portrait in Black Flames and poem “Hakeldama,” Herbert creates a great metaphor of the Final Judgment as the Great Book of accounts. This is nothing unusual, as the poet held a master’s degree in economics from the School of Economics in Krakow, currently the Krakow University of Economics.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: Sp. Issue
  • Page Range: 91-109
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English