Between Rashi and Thomas à Kempis: Aleksander Wat Known and Unknown Cover Image

MIĘDZY RASZIM A TOMASZEM Z KEMPIS: ALEKSANDER WAT SWÓJ I OBCY
Between Rashi and Thomas à Kempis: Aleksander Wat Known and Unknown

Author(s): Michala Benešová
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Aleksander Wat; Jewish religiosity; Christianity; kabbalah; sacrum; intertextuality; literary hermeneutics;Polish poetry;

Summary/Abstract: This text is an attempt to trace up some signs of Jewish and Christian religiosity in the poetry of Aleksander Wat concentrating on mystic structures and emblems deep-rooted in Jewish religious, mystic tradition and also on some Christian motives, for example the figure of Jesus Christ. We deal mainly with the Jewish roots and circumstances of Watʼs poetic and itʼs relationship with sacrum, with a kind of intertextual dialogue with many cultural symbols and concepts associated with Jewish mystique or the Christian tradition.

  • Issue Year: 19/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 51-60
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish