Referencja i bezpieczeństwo. Trop do lektury Pounda
Reference and safety. Reading Pound

Author(s): Paweł Kaczmarski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Translation Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Ezra Pound; poetry; reception; right-wing ideology; fascism
Summary/Abstract: The essay compares and contrasts two main tendencies in the contemporary Polish reception of the work of Ezra Pound. On the one hand, Pound is a popular writer in the Polish far-right circles, where his poetry plays decidedly second fiddle to the more overt racist and fascist undertones of his political and economic writings. On the other hand, there’s a largely depoliticised way of reading Pound that’s been promoted mainly by the academic writers and journalists who attempt to draw a clear line between Pound's literary brilliance and his unacceptable political views. With the notable exception of Andrzej Sosnowski’s essays, virtually all contemporary interpretations of Pound's work are thus guilty of an ideologically motivated simplification. The author's goal is to sketch out a possibility of a new progressive reading of Pound’s work – one where the most significant tension is to be found not between the poetic and the political elements of his writings, but within a larger drive towards material security as a guarantee of personal freedom.

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