Józef Barnn: Humanismo y poesía

Abstract

Traditionally regarded as apolitical, the poetical work by Józef Baran actually represents a lucid and coherent attempt to vindicate human dignity. Consequently, an ultimate concern of this poetry is the reason of suffering, while a recurrent topic is a self-restrained sense of carpe diem, which often leads to an enlightening inquiry into perennial metaphysical questions (life, death, eternity, God). Baran's Poetics rather reflects his main concerns and his personal ethics: his distinctive, personal style (plain, direct, sometimes ironic, sometimes lyric) resembles a dialogic resort, which consciously urges his reader to jointly discuss those philosophical questions raised by the author in his poems.