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Okruchy biblijne Jerzego Ficowskiego
Jerzy Ficowski’s biblical fragments

Author(s): Jakub Kozaczewski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Biblical studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Jerzy Ficowski; contemporary Polish poetry; biblical inspirations in literature;

Summary/Abstract: The article is a general and panoramic attempt at defining the basic forms of the presence of Bible in Jerzy Ficowski’s poetry. It was estblished that biblical themes are not central elements of the poetic world of the author of Inicjał. Nevertheless, they are constantly present throughout his works. The poet most often refers to the Old Testament. In particular, Ficowski is almost obsessively focused on the motif of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and original sin. The theme is present in a number of poems written during the period of a couple decades. Those poems are the subject of a more detailed analysis and interpretation of the present article.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 210-223
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish