Białoszewski idylliczny
Białoszewski: idyllic

Summary/Abstract: Miron Białoszewski’s poems published in his famous debut-making collection Obroty rzeczy have been read within the context of an idyll-of-self tradition (a concept by Renato Poggioli), that is, an idyll of privacy, its variety being an “idyll of one’s own room”, the locus amoenus of the Stalinist age. Sacralisation of the ordinary, being characteristic to Białoszewski, is a uniqueness of things ordinary, interpreted by the author not in terms of a Freudian unheimliche der Gevöhnlichkeit but as a category of the ordinary, within the meaning established by Stanley Cavell. Such an “ordinariness” is represented in epiphany scenes where the most ordinary things appear. Białoszewski’s poetry is an idyll of being, as such.

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