"Herberta zapiski z martwego domu"

Zbigniew Herbert’s Notes from the House of the Dead Using the method of genetic criticism, the article considers certain themes present in draft versions of the poem “Pan Cogito – zapiski z martwego domu” (Pan Cogito: Notes from the House of the Dead), which in the initial stages of writing was a story “Wspomnienia Pana Cogito z azylu” (Mr. Cogito’s Memories from the Asylum). The tables show words related to the asylum’s reality, which Herbert deleted or crossed out. Fornari interprets the image of reality in the “hospital temple’s,” where the characters remain, against the background of Goffman and Foucault’s research. The dedication in one of the text’s versions allows seeking common motifs of Mr. Cogito’s “memoirs” and Krzysztoń’s book Obłęd (Madness).