World under Revision

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the entirety of Wisawa Szymborskas poetic oeuvre. The author employs in-depth historical reflection on Szymborskas beginnings to reveal that without describing her post-war beginnings and reflecting on her early entanglement in socialist realist newspeak Szymborskas mature anti-dogmatic attitude will remain unclear. The book shows how Szymborskas rhetoric and stylistics figures of reservation, negation, contradiction, tautology, and repetition are closely connected with the construction of the poetic world and affect the shape of her messages. After all, Wisawa Szymborska is a poet of sophisticated wit, a surprising freedom of expression, and an unusual game with various literary styles, even with colloquial Polish.