%0 Journal Article
%T A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics
%A Ruszar, Józef Maria
%J Konteksty Kultury
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/23531991KK.19.017.11094
%N Special Issue (2019)
%P 91-109

%@ 2083-7658
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/konteksty-kultury/artykul/a-bookkeepers-honesty-in-describing-the-world-on-the-great-metaphor-of-zbigniew-herbert-recipient-of-a-masters-degree-in-economics
%X In Herbert’s essays and poems we find not only a wide range of economic problems, but also a real passion with which the author describes the economic fundaments of all civilizations. In the apocrypha The Portrait in Black Flames and poem “Hakeldama,” Herbert creates a great metaphor of the Final Judgment as the Great  Book of accounts. This is nothing unusual, as the poet held a master’s degree in economics from the School of Economics in Krakow, currently the Krakow University of Economics.