Space of a Socialist Housing District, the Space of a Modern Poem – the Sensual Art of Miron Białoszewski
Space of a Socialist Housing District, the Space of a Modern Poem – the Sensual Art of Miron Białoszewski

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the problem of space in the late output of the Polish poet Miron Białoszewski. It focuses on two aspects of space: the space of the socialist housing quarter where he lived and which he re-created in his works and the space of the page. I am interested in the sensual spatial images changing significantly with the switch of the sense dominating the particular act of perception (sight and hearing surprisingly disconnected in Białoszewski’s imagery) and the way in which textual imaging depends on the seemingly irrelevant art of typography. On many levels of the analysis the “space study” of Białoszewski’s late poems relies on the concept of freedom, understood both as an artistic attitude and a state of the human mind.

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