TY - JOUR
TI - Little Abysses: Adam Zagajewski’s “Evening, Stary Sącz”
AU - Warren, Rosanna
TI - Little Abysses: Adam Zagajewski’s “Evening, Stary Sącz”
AB - 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.
VL - 2023
IS - Volume 20 Issue 1
PY - 2023
SN - 2083-7658
C1 - 2353-1991
SP - 26
EP - 30
DO - 10.4467/23531991KK.23.005.17908
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/little-abysses-adam-zagajewskis-evening-stary-sacz
KW - Abyss
KW - moral
KW - metaphysical
KW - Adam Zagajewski