%0 Journal Article
%T Blessings of Avant-Garde. “The Scribe of (Un)Holy Scriptures” Miron Białoszewski
%A Bogalecki, Piotr
%J Wielogłos
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.19.012.11397
%N Issue 2 (40) 2019: Teologie literackie
%P 85-114
%K Białoszewski, postsecularism, postsecular poetry, avant-garde, neoavant- garde, epiphany, literature and religion
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/blogoslawienstwa-awangardy-pisarz-pism-nie-sw-miron-bialoszewski
%X 
	It can be observed that the hitherto prevailing tendencies of reading Miron Białoszewski’s works – saturated with religious references used in an idiomatic or profane way – have been either metaphysical (A. and T. Sobolewski, M. Stala, A. Zagajewski) or linguistic (J. Sławiński, E. Balcerzan, S. Barańczak). These two extremities produce a gap that can be bridged by a reading which combines the postsecular perspective, understood in an institutional way, with neo-avant-garde (in H. Foster’s interpretation). Just as the avant-garde is a critique of the obligatory art institution (P. Bürger), so can postsecularism be understood as a critique of the current institution of religion. The article presents readings of Kalejdoskop (Kaleidoscope) and of poems written in the 1950s and 1960s, and shows Białoszewski’s poetry as neo-avant-garde and postsecular at the same time, depicting the writer as the first postwar postsecular Polish poet.