Four Pieces of Julian Przyboś’s Poetic Imagination: Podgórze and Gothic Cathedrals; the Holocaust and the Atlantic

Abstract

The paper consists of two parts. The first one is dedicated to Przyboś as a son of Podgórze and to his relations with gothic cathedrals. The second one is dedicated the connection between the Atlantic and the Holocaust, and it is con-stituted around the idea of double vastness: the enormity of ocean waters and the martyrdom of the Jews; the poetic importance, however, lying not only in the very comparison, but in the possibility of proving its legitimacy.