“I Was Theseus in My Youth”. The perspective of senility in the artistic output of Jacek Kaczmarski

The subject of the article is the issue of senility present in the artistic output of Jacek Kaczmarski from its beginning (“Old People in the Bus” from his debut programme “Walls”) to its end (“The Old Age of Theseus”, from the volume “The Tunnel”, which became an inspiration for taking up this topic). Consequently, I discuss the poems in which the communication perspective can be observed with regard to the subject experiencing the old age (“The Old Age of Ovid”, the above mentioned “The Old Age of Theseus”, “Old Michelangelo and Pieta Rondanini”, “The Sleeping Old Poet” and other poems), including the texts, in which the old age or an old man are the subjects of reflections (for instance “The Old Age of Piotr Wysocki”). The chosen topic is supplemented with a consideration of the figure of returning and transformation the innocence to experience — this is where the actual and indispensable comparison of the old age and youth is going to participate.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00