From the White Field. Wacław Potocki's Man the Divine Games

Abstract

The paper Wacław Potocki's well-known poet The Divine Games from the collection The Garden of Epigrams. It unveils the specific character of Potocki's poetic imagination which, above all, seeks inspiration in everyday life, it shows the relationship between the poet and literary tradition, especially the tradition of Czarny Las. The poem under analysis is presented as a precisely constructed parabola, one that treats human life as a game including some elements of fun, but also of risk and hazard. The author of the sketch stresses the moralistic sense of Potocki's work which interprets the „game of existence” as a dynamism of the tension between freedom and necessity.