@article{b927ae51-bd43-434f-9dcf-74c92e2bab41, author = {Józef Maria Ruszar}, title = {A Bookkeeper’s Honesty in Describing the World: On the Great Metaphor of Zbigniew Herbert, Recipient of a Master’s Degree in Economics}, journal = {Konteksty Kultury}, volume = {2019}, number = {Special Issue (2019)}, year = {2019}, issn = {2083-7658}, pages = {91-109},keywords = {Zbigniew Herbert; The Portrait in Black Frames; “Hakeldama; ” bookkeeping; economics as a literary subject; the new economic criticism}, 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.}, doi = {10.4467/23531991KK.19.017.11094}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/a-bookkeepers-honesty-in-describing-the-world-on-the-great-metaphor-of-zbigniew-herbert-recipient-of-a-masters-degree-in-economics} }