Studia Filologiczne UJK

Summary

The article constitutes a synthetic comparative study of three poetic works which are emblematic to the modern Polish literature, developed at the Christian-Judaic borderline and immersed in the element of a linguistic experiment. The discussion is focused on the cabalistic figure of Adam Kadmon – a primitive man who is, simultaneously, the original Book-Authentic and mystical body of the world. This motif can be found in the works of Aleksander Wat, Jerzy Ficowski and Piotr Matywiecki. The notion of somatic poems, taken from the title of Wat’s poetic cycle, in which religious imagination is expressed in the categories of corporeality, enables one to outline a certain interesting aspect of selected literary theologies joining spirituality with somatism, and linguism with figurativeness.