The world as a transit. The poetics of space in the poetry of Gisella Lachman Cover Image

Świat jako tranzyt. Poetyka przestrzeni w poezji Gizelli Lachman
The world as a transit. The poetics of space in the poetry of Gisella Lachman

Author(s): Jolanta Brzykcy
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Gisella Lachman; first wave of Russian emigration; poetry of White emigration; poetics of space; spatial model of human life

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of the poetry of Gisella Lachman (1895–1969), poet of the “first wave” of Russian emigration, from the perspective of the poetics of space. The poet expressed her emigration experience (multiple changes of residence: Russia, Germany, Switzerland, USA) in her poems in spatial relations. They appear on different levels of the works’ morphology: in the construction of the lyrical “I”, in the organisation of the presented world, in the repertoire of motifs and the selection of poetic lexis and genre forms. Space plays a literal role in Lachman’s poetry; it is a representation of extra-literary reality, seen subjectively. It is also subject to metaphorisation, becoming a tool for expressing philosophical content. The poet creates not only a spatial model of the world, but also a spatial model of human life, which she perceives as a transit on the road to eternity.

  • Issue Year: 46/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 11-25
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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