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Un esbozo comparativo de la ensayística de Zbigniew Herbert con textos hispánicos
A Comparative Sketch of the Essays of Zbigniew Herbert with Hispanic Texts

Author(s): Amán Rosales Rodríguez
Subject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, Other Language Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: literary essay; travel literature; Polish essay; Spanish essay; Spanish-American essay
Summary/Abstract: A re-reading of some of Zbigniew Herbert’s essays is proposed in base of a comparison with texts by Octavio Paz and Rafael Argullol. The following topics are commented: characteristics of the literary essay, the travel as geographical displacement and spiritual experience, the relationship between the individual and history, and the moderately skeptical view of Western culture, present, in different degrees, in the three authors.