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A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics

Publication date: 18.11.2019

Konteksty Kultury, 2019, Special Issue (2019), pp. 91 - 109

https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.19.017.11094

Authors

Józef Maria Ruszar
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland
ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland
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Filip Mazurczak Orcid

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A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics

Abstract

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.

Remarks

Originally published in Konteksty Kultury 2016, vol. 13, no. 1 (the Polish title: “Księgowa uczciwość opisu świata. O wielkiej metaforze magistra ekonomii Zbigniewa Herberta”).

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Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2019, Special Issue (2019), pp. 91 - 109

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:

A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0321-8481

Józef Maria Ruszar
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland
ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0321-8481 Orcid
All publications →

Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland
ul. Mikołaja Kopernika 26, Kraków, Poland

Published at: 18.11.2019

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