NIE NASTANIE ŚWIAT ŚWIETNY, ŚWIETLISTY I ŚWIEŻY?
Won't There Come the Glorious, Luminous and New World?

Summary/Abstract: This is an interpretation of the poem by St. Barańczak Braki, odrzuty, produkty zastępcze from the volume Tryptyk z betonu, zmęczenia i śniegu (Triptych with Concrete, Fatigue and Snow) published in 1980 by Cracow Students' Publishers, and after a year, by the Literary Institute in Paris. According to the author of the article, the world created in the poem, though it greatly resembles PRL reality, cannot be analyzed only from the historical point of view. The reality presented may be a metaphor of the world in general, where mediocrity changes its forms, but is still painfully present. The diagnosis of the lyrical 'self' is quite pessimistic: mediocre are not only material objects, mediocrity also overwhelms all human mental life and defines his existentialmetaphysical feelings. The distance of the subject of creation towards mediocrity is signalized by punctuation, syntactic and versifying division, phrases. Thus by stricte poetic means of expression, non-final victory of mediocre over undeniable values of culture is suggested.

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