Little Abysses: Adam Zagajewski’s “Evening, Stary Sącz”
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Publication date: 14.07.2023
Konteksty Kultury, 2023, Volume 20 Issue 1, pp. 26 - 30
https://doi.org/10.4467/23531991KK.23.005.17908Authors
Little Abysses: Adam Zagajewski’s “Evening, Stary Sącz”
This essay considers Adam Zagajewski’s poem “Evening, Stary Sącz”and in particular, the line “Little abysses open between the stones.”This image invites us to reflect on the many startling gaps and voids in Zagajewski’s poems. At times, those abysses suggest historical and political dimensions particular to Polish (and European) experience in the 20th century; but more often, Zagajewski presents the abyss as moral and metaphysical. “Evening, Stary Sącz,”a poem that doesn’t on its surface appear very threatening, opens suddenly through its “little abysses”into sacrificial reality.
* The text was originally published in The Hopkins Review 2023, vol. 16, no. 1 (Winter), pp. 109–113.
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Information: Konteksty Kultury, 2023, Volume 20 Issue 1, pp. 26 - 30
Article type: Original article
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Little Abysses: Adam Zagajewski’s “Evening, Stary Sącz”
University of Chicago, USA
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Published at: 14.07.2023
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