„Precision of Mysticism”. Imprisonment – a Few Remarks on the Motif (Janusz St. Pasierb)

Abstract

The article is an attempt at discovering the main determinants of Pasierb’s condition, his experiences, his social sense and cultural status in the poet’s works. By analyzing actual texts and their relations with pictures of visual art the author of the paper shows the function of such concepts as exile, confinement or constraint that is a modeling one in the semantic range. Referring to hermeneutics of the Ricoeur type has additionally made it possible to put forward important theses concerning the whole of the poet’s work, and pointing to the issue of responsibility and true existence (identity) that is important to him. The article proves that Pasierb’s poetry is a correction of the cultural stereotype.