Dotkliwe wiersze Aleksandra Wata

Abstract

PATRYK SZAJ Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań ALEKSANDER WAT’S ACUTE POEMS The article takes up a thought over one of the most vital theme of Aleksander Wat’s post-war creativity, namely suffering. The notion is set into the context of radical hermeneutics of John D. Caputo who in his philosophy distinguishes between b o d y (healthy body) and f l e s h (a suffering one). Wat’s subject is seen by the author as flesh which issues a moral challenge to body – the reader. Interpretation is organised around “acuteness” of Wat’s texts – moving ones, calling for ethical commitment (how to responsibly respond to suffering?), and at the same time radically ambiguous, sense-forming, heterogeneous (how to remain fair against their complexity?). In the course of interpretation the phenomenon of dying is scrutinised, and it is viewed as an insolvability that structures Wat’s entire post-war poetry and that conditions its aporetic nature.