TY - JOUR
TI - Blessings of Avant-Garde. “The Scribe of (Un)Holy Scriptures” Miron Białoszewski
AU - Bogalecki, Piotr
TI - Blessings of Avant-Garde. “The Scribe of (Un)Holy Scriptures” Miron Białoszewski
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2019
IS - Issue 2 (40) 2019: Teologie literackie
PY - 2019
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 85
EP - 114
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.19.012.11397
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/blogoslawienstwa-awangardy-pisarz-pism-nie-sw-miron-bialoszewski
KW - Białoszewski
KW - postsecularism
KW - postsecular poetry
KW - avant-garde
KW - neoavant- garde
KW - epiphany
KW - literature and religion