Epiphanic Experience of Landscape in Pre-War Yiddish Poetry of Avrom Sutzkever Cover Image

Epifanijne doświadczenia krajobrazu w przedwojennej poezji jidyszowej Awroma Suckewera
Epiphanic Experience of Landscape in Pre-War Yiddish Poetry of Avrom Sutzkever

Author(s): Karolina Koprowska
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Comparative Study of Literature, Other Language Literature, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: landscape; epiphany; Yiddish literature; Avrom Sutzkever;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the relationship between the subject and the landscape in Avrom Sutzkever’s early poetry (primarily focusing on compositions published in the volumes Lider [Poems], from 1937, and Valdiks [Forested], from 1940). The author explores the matter of epiphanic experience of landscape – wherein the stake is the search for metaphysical sense within nature – that is a dominant feature of Sutzkever’s pre-war poetry. The way these epiphanies are depicted reveals the romantic–modernist provenance of the early poetic compositions of this Yiddish writer.

  • Issue Year: 16/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 16-32
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish