Czy może istnieć poezja niemelancholijna [dot. A. Świeściak: "Melancholia w poezji polskiej po 1989 roku]"
Is a non-melancholic poetry possible at all?

Summary/Abstract: The text is a review of "Melancholia w poezji polskiej po 1989 roku", a book by Alina Świeściak (Kraków: Universitas, 2011). Hoffmann positions the work in the broader panorama of Polish humanistic studies on melancholy which intensified around the turn of the century and are still relevant today. For Świeściak melancholy is not only an array of meanings surrounding a gap, emptiness and mortality in contemporary poetry (among others by Różewicz, Krynicki, Dycki, Kielar, Sosnowski), but it is also a figure that enables reflection on the notions of corporality or sight. The review makes an attempt to reconstruct these key concepts and to inquire about the limits of the notion of melancholy and questions the book's silence of Marcin Świetlicki's poetry.

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