Czytając wiersze Andrzeja Buszy
Reading Andrzej Busza’s Poems

Author(s): Jacek Gutorow
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Andrzej Busza; pastoral poems; modernism; intertextuality;
Summary/Abstract: The essay begins by situating Andrzej Busza’s poetry in the context of a broadly understood Anglo‑Saxon modernist tradition, the stress being put on its multivocal, allusive and meditative qualities. One of Busza’s most characteristic literary gestures is his constant effort towards questioning traditional poetic forms, a Modernist device per se. Importantly, the essay focuses on the Polish poet’s ironic treatment of the pastoral mode. Busza’s anti‑pastoral sentiments are attributed to various influences, the most significant ones being the Manichean ontological pessimism and the Romantic concept of the split self with its inability to re‑integrate man and his world.

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