Mądre tautologie

"This article covers a particular form of Wisława Szymborska conceptualism, her intellectual "fugues", which turn the world's elements upsidedown and deconstruct them, uncovering their antinomies. The reality takes the form of a concatenation, it is elliptic, based on seemingly symmetric tessellations. but in essence, triggers some logic turns. It is possible to discern a parallel with advertising rhetoric and its constant variations of sense based on oppositions, such a double meaning, antiphrasis, paradox, or tautology, in all of which Szymborska is able to notice the condensing of meaning or even oxymoronic properties. Maybe it is why her poetry is accessible to such a wide audience across the world… Tautology, though frequently condemned by 20th-century thinkers as a mere pleonasm, becomes for the poetess a fluid kind of material which is useful for her dialectics of imagination. Szymborska sees the language not as a mirror of the world, but as an act of creating new worlds and new forms of life in accordance with Wittgenstein's theory of language games. This is why she prefers such word games more than other poets. Due to their dual nature, as they are perceived with the mathematical logic, tautologies constitute a potential and permanent element of Szymborska's conceptual games."