Poeta (na) Akropolu. Przypadek Zbigniewa Herberta

Abstract

This article is devoted to the Greek journeys of Zbigniew Herbert – a restlesss traveller and the author of such essayistic sketchess as Diariusz grecki [Greek diary] Duszyczka [Little soul] and Akropol [The Acropolis]. The hill of Athens became the arena of the writer’s emotional struggles with himself. The masterpiece, which was admired and studied in the library retreat, evoked the previously suppressed emotions – helplessness, impatience, anger, melancholy, frustration, discouragement. The Acropolis proved to be a mystery impossible for Herbert uncover, and finally, a strange place of his “private psychomachia”.