Abstract: | The very book constitutes a collection of essays combining interpretative-
analytic considerations on particular works by Tadeusz Różewicz
with an attempt to define the specificity of his play in references and
evaluation of the modi operandi of the world surrounding him. It is also
a reflection on his attitude towards the most important categories of
humanistics, i.e. the subjectivity and poetical „I”, history and the load
of experience, the congruence of the poetic word to the life matter, irony
and self-irony, identity built on memory and a reflexive reception of reality
in its most important and trivial forms, as well as others’ works and
words included in a poetic fabric of his own works.
Intertextuality of the works by Różewicz is hence very widely understood:
an intertext is both a different literary work (also a different text
by Różewicz himself), and a cultural formation of a given epoch, a special
historical moment, covering various forms of transmission, a language
of media or criticism addressed to poet’s works, thanks to which
the researchers, experts and translators try to reveal „the mystery of
a poem” by Różewicz. And despite the fact that particular sketches treat
about various aspects of his writings (connections his poems have with
poetry by Norwid, Staff or metapoetic or worldview-historiosophic
issues), some of them reach as far as the joint issues, which brings about
a poetic density and coherence when it comes to Różewicz consistently
building a characteristic trend of thematology and a series of reference
points around a group of basic notions and cultural pillars. |