"Z kronik współczesnej mistyki" - Adam Zagajewski i Nowa Fala (opowieść postsekularna)

Abstract

The subject of the present analysis are Adam Zagajewski’s early works, written in the 1970s: the books of poems Komunikat, Sklepy mięsne and List, the novel Ciepło, zimno, the short story Boże Ciało, the critical literary texts, and finally, a little known essay W kilku punktach, published under the pen name Jan Garlicz. An attempt was made at the postsecular interpretation of these texts with particular emphasis on the analysis of the different from the author’s later works attitude toward language and the Christian symbolism. In the offered rendition a significant topic and the irreducible context turns out to be the question of the possibility of non-religious, creative use of the Christian heritage by the secularized members of the Polish People’s Republic society. In the final parts of the article Zagajewski’s theses were extended to the works of the other members of the Generation ’68, represented here primarily by the articles of S. Barańczak, and confronted with the Polish tradition of the studies on the relationship between literature and religion.