„Harpun zachwytu”. Józef Czapski i Adam Zagajewski w sporze o naturę świata
“Harpoon of Delight”. Józef Czapski and Adam Zagajewski in a Controversy about the Nature of the World

Summary/Abstract: Józef Czapski and Adam Zagajewski made their acquaintance during the early 1980s, and their swiftly established friendship lasted until the painter’s death in 1993. Or rather, to the passing of the poet in 2021, since Adam Zagajewski continued to dedicate successive essays and poems to Czapski. The author of this article reconstructs the history of this friendship by basing himself on Zagajewski’s works, but predominantly on up to now unpublished correspondence and the equally unknown diary notes by Czapski. He also indicates the peak of tension between the two protagonists of the article, who fundamentally differed in their estimation of the condition of the world and man. Czapski accentuated primarily evil permeating the world and the miserable plight of its inhabitants, also non-human ones. Zagajewski steered much more towards “brightness” and contrasted evil and beauty – both that of Nature and art

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