Wisława Szymborska – Three Anatomical Studies

Abstract

The article is of an interpretive and methodological nature and concerns the design of reflections around existential and universal issues of “longue durée” (Braudel), as well as the design of situations of reception of cultural texts within the framework of humanities education at the high school level. The author describes a project – implemented in practice – related to the phenomenon of human existence and the diagnosis of human condition, primarily based on Wisława Szymborska’s poems, including three poetic “anatomical studies”, with literature treated here as a “laboratory of thought experiments” (Ricoeur). The principles of text selection and arrangement are explained using this example, with particular attention paid to the various materials available on the Internet.