https://doi.org/10.31261/NoZ.2016.02.16
“Armenian Night Squints its Eyes”. Around the Metaphor of the Iconic Fate in Jerzy Ficowski’s Poetry
In his work, Jerzy Ficowski – the author of Odczytanie popiołów, Ptak poza ptakiem, Demony cudzego strachu and Czekanie na sen psa – concentrates on the borderland in its broad sprectrum. Tryptyk bizantyjski – the subject of this study – is a piece in which the author emphasises the need for memory and emphatic writing, which is especially visible in its third part, devoted to Armenian memory. Being a reminder of the tragic history of the forgotten nation, the poem is simultaneously a cry for literary presence and audibility. This cultural, historical and literary borderland, significant in Ficowski’s poetry, appears also in the gesture of rewriting an icon and in the creation of oxymoronic poetry.
Key words: Jerzy Ficowski, post‑war poetry, Armenians, memory, memory studies, trauma, postmemory, icon
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No. 2 (2016)
Published: 2016-12-31
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English