Nieco rzeczy mglistych
Some hazy matters

Author(s): Marek Zaleski
Subject(s): 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: economy of friendship; inspiration; muse; poetry
Summary/Abstract: What determined the friendly closeness of Czesław Miłosz and Iosif Brodski? In theauthor’s opinion, affi nity in appreciation of the role of poetic inspiration was one ofthe reasons for this. Th is seemingly anachronistic category gains new interpretations.Both believe that inspiration is an adventure in which the unpredictability of the linguisticgesture manifests itself. Inspiration is characteristic of meaninglessness, the logicof reaction to which the rule of the excluded middle does not apply. It is an aff ect anda linguistic impulse that opens space for new metaphors and allows epiphany insights.

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