Jarmark cudow wislawa szymborska biography
The work of Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska provides an unexpected but revealing point of entry into recent discussions of “world..
The work of Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska provides an unexpected but revealing point of entry into recent discussions of “world literature.
Wis&#;awa Szymborska Biography
Polish poet and translator, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in , at the age of seventy-three. Szymborska is one of the few woman poets who have received the prize.
Her early works were born more or less within the straitjacket of the Socialist Realism. Later she has expressed her pessimism about the future of mankind. While skepticism has marked Szymborska's views of the human condition, its has not stopped her from believing in the power of words and the joy arising from imagination.
Szymborska often uses ordinary speech and proverbs but gives them a fresh and arresting meaning.
In Szymborska's "Jarmark cudow" [Miracle Fair], nature also appears as a stage of miracles.Is there then a world
where I rule absolutely on fate?
A time I bind with chains of signs?
An existence become endless at my bidding?
The joy of writing.
The power of preserving.
Revenge of a mortal hand.
(from 'The Joy of Writing,', )
Wislawa Szymborska was born in Bnin (now part of Kornick) in western .
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