Paradox și ironie în aforismele lui Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The present study aims at discussing the way in which Stanislaw Jerzy Lec's moral and philosophical thought unfolds in aphoristic manner. His wide acclaimed volume entitled "Unkept Thoughts" grasps, often in a sarcastic, but offbeat and painstaking manner, the fundamental social, political, economical, and spiritual paradoxes of our times. Taking into account the author's propensity for wordplay, we analyze paradox and irony as main lexical and semantic strategies nurturing his aphoristic work.