Słowa rozdziewane do pestek : o wierszu "Anatomia" Andrzeja Kuśniewicza

Abstract

Andrzej Kuśniewicz is known, first of all, as a prose writer. His four collections of poetry are overshadowed by his popular novels. It is, however, in his poems that Kuśniewicz sketched out and expressed (in a condensed form) not only the topics characteristic of his writing, but, above all, his poetical sensitivity to the problems of the world and humanity. This sensitivity often takes the form of a facetious literary game, under the comic mask; however, there appears an authentic experience and consciousness of the writer’s person. The present article contains an interpretation of the poem Anatomia, which can be found in the collection Czas prywatny (Private Time). In keeping with the suggestion included in the poem’s title, the attempts to discover the deep senses pertaining to the essence of language, but also influencing the relationship between word and literature, are shown here with the help of a detailed, anatomical interpretation. The analysis of the attitude of “getting into a habit”, and of “getting out of it” as regards the words presented in Anatomia not only illustrates various linguistic processes and but also becomes a reflection on the subject of existence.