“To poeticize oneself to death.” The poetry of Jan Paweł Krasnodębski in existential elements Cover Image

„Zapisać się wierszem na śmierć”. Poezja Jana Pawła Krasnodębskiego w żywiołach egzystencji
“To poeticize oneself to death.” The poetry of Jan Paweł Krasnodębski in existential elements

Author(s): Paweł Majerski
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The author of the study is interested in the work of Jan Paweł Krasnodębski, which for years has been created in the border zones of life and literature, facts and auto-creative games, facing the elements of a “torn” existence. The scope of the study includes, first of all, poetic records from all the volumes published so far, but they are subjected to a reading that does not give up narrative statements (novels and journals, often depriving us of comfortable participation in their realistic immediacy). Krasnodębski’s literary forms constitute a record of not only successive acts of self-immolation, self-destruction, but also stages of rebuilding the mental structure and effective self-defence. The presented analyses are aimed at verifying the image of a “monochrome” writer preserved in texts that still process and thematically model the same image of the elements of existence, trying – in the art. of words woven with strong threads of biography – to simply “bear witness.”

  • Page Range: 349-381
  • Page Count: 33
  • Publication Year: 2021
  • Language: Polish