Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World. On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Master of Economy Cover Image

Księgowa uczciwość opisu świata. O wielkiej metaforze magistra ekonomii Zbigniewa Herberta
Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World. On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Master of Economy

Author(s): Józef Maria Ruszar
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Zbigniew Herbert; Portret w czarnych ramach; Hakeldama; rachunkowość; ekonomia jako temat literacki; literacka krytyka ekonomiczna

Summary/Abstract: In Herbert’s essays and poems we find not only a wide range of economic problems, but also a real passion with which the author describes the economic basics of all civilisations. In the apocrypha The Portrait in Black Frames and poem Hakeldama Herbert builds a great metaphor of The Last Judgement as the Great Books of accounts. Nothing unusual. The poet and essayist held a master’s degree in economics (he graduated from the School of Economics in Krakow – currently the University of Economics).

  • Issue Year: 13/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 20-38
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish