Słowa kluczowe: Zbigniew Herbert, philosophy, poetry, death, immortality, eternal life, Herbert’s artistic legacy, reception, history of Polish literary criticism, interpretation, methodology, new literary theory, drafts, “Mr. Cogito and the Imagination, ” tautology, genetic criticism, archives, The Portrait in Black Frames, “Hakeldama, ” bookkeeping, economics as a literary subject, the new economic criticism