“Pain Has a Limit and Then There Begins a Smile That Shows Bliss”: An Unusual Entanglement of Poetry and Reality Cover Image
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„Jest taka cierpienia granica, za którą się uśmiech pogodny zaczyna”. O kilku przedziwnych splotach poezji i rzeczywistości
“Pain Has a Limit and Then There Begins a Smile That Shows Bliss”: An Unusual Entanglement of Poetry and Reality

Author(s): Adam Fitas
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Czesław Miłosz; Walc; Krystyna Papierkowska; Danuta Zamącińska; poetry and reality

Summary/Abstract: Fitas explores the mysterious links between literature and reality that can arise when a sensitive reader encounters a poetic work. His starting point is the book Walc na troje[Waltz for Three], which presents literary texts, correspondence as well as manuscript drafts and photographs to showcase the unusual reception of one poem by CzesławMiłosz. This reception reveals an interesting entanglement between the lives of the poet,of his characters and of the readers of his poems on the one hand and, on the other hand,the existence of characters and meanings immortalised through poetic imagination in the literary text.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 309-320
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish