“Mr Herbert – traveller” exhibition at the Palace of the Republic of Poland
date:30 October 2024 Editor: Anna
As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Zbigniew Herbert's birth in the Palace of the Republic, a series of events commemorating the poet is held by the National Library.
The exhibition “Mr Herbert – the traveller” presents the manuscripts of Zbigniew Herbert. The title of the exhibition is an allusion to the poem "The Prayer of Mr. Cogito – a traveller", said PAP curator of the exhibition and manager of the National Library manuscripts department Anna Romaniuk.
Herbert said, “Since 1939 I have been in eternal motion.” – We want to talk about the life of the poet, about his travels, about the passing and his experience of places and people. It's the Lions he was driven out of by the war. This is Warsaw, where he lived and found his last marina. These are besides another journeys of the poet – Paris, Vienna, Berlin and many another addresses to which he went. We will show places, people and images of which the poet has so consciously experienced," indicated Anna Romaniuk.
Sir
Thank you for creating a beautiful and very different world.
And besides for letting me in inexhaustible
Your goodness be in places that have not been
in places of my regular distress – he wrote in the Prayer of Mr Cogito – a traveler.
– Herbert the traveler is simply a man very consciously experiencing the world. His witnessing from +The Messages of Lord Cogito+ is besides a evidence of the world, its journey and this conscious experience of the world. In the poems that we will present on the exhibition, even people, places and objects meet accidentally have meaning and build us – explained the curator. “We want to show Herbert’s doctrine of travelling and testifying about this,” she added.
The manuscripts presented at the exhibition consist of a chronological communicative about crucial places for the poet – from the household Lviv to Warsaw, from the suitcases of the man-without-home to packing before the last journey-death, from the joy here and now to the melancholy of the past, from the euphoric gratitude to the resignation of the end. “We will combine Herbert’s manuscripts with a modern multimedia spectacle and visual abundance,” Romaniuk explained.
– Herbert remains a valued poet, eagerly read and liked by readers. The National Library besides active in various activities related to the poet. In our collections is Herbert's archive. The centennial anniversary of his birthday is an chance to share it with visitors, show places and travel experiences. He was 1 of the poets we can call formative – in his poems there are people with different views. His poems concern European culture and build a cultural community – present this is an highly crucial and inactive current message – concluded Anna Romaniuk.
The exhibition “Mr Herbert – the traveller” will be open until 31 December.
Krasiński Palace 3/5 00-207 Warsaw
Source" PCh24.pl
