Pustka jako kategoria antropologiczna we współczesnym doświadczeniu poetyckim (Halina Poświatowska, Henri Michaux)

Abstract

This paper makes an attempt at situating in the anthropological context the problem of emptiness, which has become one of the important topics undertaken by the poets of recent decades. Works of Halina PoSwiatowska and Henri Michaux are examples of methods in which modern poetry seems to “test” new areas of imagery, which open as a result of recognizing the experience of emptiness. These poets perceive emptiness not as the void, which in the modem code is usually presented as the negative of existence, but as space, in which it is possible to integrate human “being here” with the need/necessity of “disappearing”. The experience of corporal existence, which PoSwiatowska and Michaux recall in this context, becomes a link between their individual poetic awareness and the area of “positive non-being”, defined (following Hölderlin and Heidegger) as “recognizing emptiness”.