After the Fall

The book reconstructs a poetic vision of the world after the Fall and describes Czesaw Miosz's model of modernism, shaped by his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy, yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, and faith in the power of poetic imagination.

Tomasz Garbol's book reconstructs Czesaw Miosz's poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Miosz's works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy) and his understanding of the consequences of the Fall (reversible or fatalistic). The book is a literary studies take on the relationship between literature and religion. The main direction is that Miosz's main need in art comes from his yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, which he seeks in the activity of poetic imagination.

Auteur

Tomasz Garbol, literary scholar at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, the Center of Research on Religious Literature, and author of monographs about Zbigniew Herbert, Chrzest ziemi , and Czes aw Mi osz, Mi osz. Los, editor of the collection on literature and religion, Literatura a religia.

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Tomasz Garbol s book reconstructs Czes aw Mi osz s poetic vision of the world after the Fall. The entry point to this approach is the conviction about the ambivalence of previous interpretations of Mi osz s works, especially about his bipolar poetic worldview (his intellectual and existential division between pessimism and ecstasy) and his understanding of the consequences of the Fall (reversible or fatalistic). The book is a literary studies take on the relationship between literature and religion. The main direction is that Mi osz s main need in art comes from his yearning for contact with the meaning of reality, which he seeks in the activity of poetic imagination.

Contenu
Poetic vision of the world after the Fall heritage of Romanticism (Mickiewicz and Norwid)
challenges of modernism yearning for presence or contact with the meaning of reality faith in the
power of poetic imagination relationship between literature and religion