Opowieść – naród – śmierć. O późnym politycznym pisarstwie Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza

The Story – the Nation – the Death. Regarding the Late Political Writing of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

The presented book discusses the phenomenon of late political writing of Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, which consists of volumes forming a series known as ‘Polish tetralogy’ (Wieszanie [Hanging], Kinderszenen, Samuel Zborowski, Reytan. Upadek Polski [Reytan. The Fall of Poland]) as well as the so-called ‘civil poems’. These texts – including the public statements of the author – at the end of the first and during the second decade of the 21st century created the phenomenon of ‘social impact’ of Rymkiewicz reported by numerous researchers and broadcasters. The author of the publication, using the literary, cultural, philosophical, and sociological tools, discovers the veiled, hidden meaning of the poet’s work, repeatedly challenging and making problematic the well-established in the Rymkiewicz’s doxa image of the writer – ‘the bloody bard of the Right Wing’.

Keywords: Rymkiewicz, nation, thymos, politics, sublimity.