Pieniądz i słowo. Nowoczesne paradoksy Leśmianowskiego języka poetyckiego
Modern Paradoxes of Leśmian’s Poetic Language

Summary/Abstract: An attempt is offered at a new description of the Leśmian concept of poetic word. The proposed view is partly polemical against the by-far dominant ways of depicting the issue in question (i.e. those of R. Nycz and M.P. Markowski). The starting point is an afterthought on the role of money in the poet’s essay writing and life practice. The paradox of simultaneous negation and desire which is revealed here allows for seeing money as a metaphor facilitating description of paradoxical status of word within Leśmian’s poetic theory and practice. Such a concept enables to show Leśmian as a penetrating and versatile observer of modern culture (inspired by e.g. G. Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money), on the one hand, and, as one of the first Polish poets to have been aware of the irremovable contradiction (described many years later by Adorno) imposed on the modern art, on the other.

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