The signature of the poet's creative personality

Abstract

The book Mistrz świata. Szkice o twórczości Marcina Świetlickiego (“World Champion. Sketches on Marcin Świetlicki’s writings”, P. Śliwiński [ed.], Poznań 2011), the out- come of a session organized in 2011 by the Department of Poetics and Literary Criticism of the AMU, Wydawnictwo Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej and Culture Animation Center in Poznań, is an attempt to present the message of the poetic space of one of the greatest Polish poets of the 1989 turn. It contains twenty critical essays, several texts with a more free structure, and four poems by the author analyzed in the anthology: Świerszcze, Uniwersytety, Postępy, Ćwierkanie (respectively: “Crickets”, “Universities”, “Progress”, and “Tweeting”). In their paper, the scholars emphasize the value of the poetic output od the author od Schizma (“The Schism”), who addresses the reader from a position difficult to define, rightly emphasizing the fact that the poet, not giving up his present – remains somewhat aside, even though he does not celebrate this separateness, nor does he make it heroic. He skillfully uses irony, joke, or mockery, which he uses to create a distanced attitude to himself and the surrounding reality. Despite his popularity, he refuses to be provoked – according to the authors of the volume – to accept the role of authority.