„Urodzone cytaty”. Wisława Szymborska jako aforystka
“Quotations Born”: Wisława Szymborska as an Aphorist

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Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze Wisława Szymborska’s literary works in order to demon-strate that her aphoristic style is one of the most striking elements of her texts. Szymborska’s style is particularly notable in that it is ironically aphoristic, containing parody of typical aphoristic schemata, paradox and tautology. Through this style, her work not only enriches the traditional repertoire of the genre but seems also to justify an important feature of her writing: its philosophical and intellectual character often discerned by critics. As a consequence, quotes from her oeuvre frequently enter diverse anthologies of ‘wise and funny thoughts’ and collections of the so-called ‘winged’ words.

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