Alegoryzacje „dnia Gniewu”. O utworach Jana Kasprowicza pisanych „ginącemu światu”
Allegorising “Day of Rage.” On Jan Kasprowicz’s Works Written to the “Dying World”

Summary/Abstract: The text is an attempt to indicate the common places in the works published by Kas- prowicz as volume VI of his Dzieła poetyckie [Poetic Works]. In the field of research interest, the basic human experiences are – according to Kasprowicz – pain, associa- ted fear and literary strategies for taming them. The cycles Ginącemu światu [To the Dying World] and Salve Regina, as well as the poems from the volume O bohaterskim koniu i walącym się domu [Of the Heroic Horse and the Wrecking House] are read in the perspective of a modern allegory. Detailed interpretations use the concepts of clas- sical psychoanalysis (such as fetish, symptoms, denial). The source of inspiration also comes from Walter Benjamin’s proposed description of the disappearance of experien- ce and the disintegration of significant structures – which can be recognised as pheno- mena characteristic of modernity.

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