Search results for "Andrzej Busza"
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Conrad Andrzeja Buszy
2019
The article presents Professor Andrzej Busza, a Conradian researcher, who is connected with the subject of his research, Joseph Conrad, by common experiences of alienation and growing into a different culture, life on the border of different worlds. Busza presents Conrad’s Polish heritage and its later influence on the writer’s work. Busza writes about Conrad ’s deep pessimism, which links the writer with contemporary Poles, as well as about Conrad’s popularity during the war and occupation, when“ fidelity becomes the greatest of virtues, and betrayal - the greatest crime” . Busza also speaks of Conrad’s attitude to Flaubert and Dostoyevsky, which, being fuli of paradoxes and contradictions…
Between "full moon and summer solstice". The quest for transcendence in the poety of Andrzej Busza
2019
The article is an attempt to describe the poet’s vision of human destiny, history and transcendence. Analysing poems from two poetry volumes I endeavour to present Busza’s philosophy. The poet notes and appreciates science and scientifi c achievements as well as civilisational development, although he realises that they may be dangerous for human spirituality and potentially lead to catastrophe.