The leading Polish poet still residing in his native land, Zbigniew
Herbert as not been the subject of a book-length study in English
until now. Stanislaw Baranczak, himself a poet, critic, and
translator, emigrated from Poland only in 1981, and is therefore
eminently qualified to supply a politico-cultural context for
Herbert while describing and analyzing the texts and themes of his
poems.
Herbert's poetry is based on permanent confrontation--the
confrontation of Western tradition with the experience of a
"barbarian" from Eastern Europe, of the classical past with the
modern era, of cultural myth with a practical, empirical point of
view. Baranczak illustrates these oppositions by examining, first,
the complex relations between "disinheritance" and "heritage" as
they appear in Herbert's work on various structural levels, from
symbolic key words to lyrical characters; second, the forms and
functions of Herbert's "unmasking metaphor"; third, his uses of
irony; fourth, his ethical system, which enables him to be both
ironist and moralist. Baranczak pays special attention to irony as
the most conspicuous feature of Herbert's poetic method.
"A Fugitive from Utopia" makes Herbert's poetic ideas fully
accessible to the general reader, and will also be of interest to
students of Polish literature, of East European culture and
society, and of modern poetry. Those who have already encountered
Herbert's poetry in one of the several translations into English
currently available will welcome this lucid explication of his
work.
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