Centralny punkt świata poetyckiego Juliana Przybosia: Notre Dame
Central Point in Julian Przyboś’s Poetic World: Notre Dame

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper underscores that in Julian Przyboś’s piece Notre-Dame of Paris four times becomes the world’s vertical axis. It proves to be an exceptional crosspoint of the earth’s horizontal axis and the universe’s vertical axis, as in Jacob’s dream. The consequence of entering the temple through its door is expressed in the words: “The Interior pried me from the spire’s hook―in terror.” And the terror is a fundamental item of numinosum. A startling effect of the poet’s three-decade struggle with the most famous gothic cathedral of Paris seems to be his at least partially religious or only para-religious confession: “I made a plane pilgrimage to Notre-Dame de Paris as to The Beauty of Lourdes that never failed me [...].”

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