"Żywa śmierć", czyli kłopoty ze skończonością
“Death alive”, or, on problems with the Finite
Author(s): Agata StankowskaSubject(s): Review
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Ewa Lipska; Polish Poetry; Finiteness; Infiniteness
Summary/Abstract: Review of book Nic nie jest pewne. O twórczości Ewy Lipskiej (Arkadiusz Morawiec and Barbara Wolska, eds.), a collection of critical essays on Ewa Lipska’s poetry. The Academy of Humanities & Economics in Łódź, Łódź, 2005. The book under review is the first comprehensive study devoted to Ewa Lipska’s output. The authors have focused on issues being key to this oeuvre, such as Death, Illness, Evil, Time, Love, Being. The book also offers a discussion on the issue of human finiteness as tackled by the poet, the response being a turn one can make to (a) finiteness itself or to its contradiction, i.e. infiniteness.
Journal: Teksty Drugie
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 102-108
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Polish