TY - JOUR
TI - Szymborska Zen?
AU - Marinelli, Luigi
TI - Szymborska Zen?
AB - 
	On the basis of reading Szymborska’s poems, Lektury nadobowiązkowe (Non-required Reading) and some auto-thematic reflections from interviews, and referring to – among other things – the conceptions of “ordinary Buddhism” proposed by the French writer Hervé Clerc and “spontaneous enlightenment,” which the Italian scholar of Chán/Zen Aldo Tollini uses in relation to the writing of Luigi Pirandello, the author suggests that the poetic world of Wisława Szymborska is deeply immersed in Zen philosophy. There are some fundamental concepts of Zen thought that shed an interesting light on the general message of this poetry, pointing out many similarities and affinities. This concerns, for example, the ironic and antiphrastic conception of poetic language, the relation between poetry and reality, as well as the method of experiencing the world based on distance and doubt.
	 
VL - 2016
IS - Issue 3 (29) 2016: Szymborska – po latach
PY - 2017
SN - 1897-1962
C1 - 2084-395X
SP - 41
EP - 54
DO - 10.4467/2084395XWI.16.019.6403
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/szymborska-zen
KW - Szymborska Wisława
KW - Buddhism
KW - Zen
KW - contemporary Polish poetry