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As Andrzej Mencwel observed, “as a result of fundamental historical changes” the need arises for “restructuring of the whole present memory and tradition system” (Rodzinna Europa po raz pierwszy). Changes of such significance took place in Poland during the Second World War and several following decades. Collective experience of that time was made up of – apart from political antagonisms – social and cultural phenomena such as change of elites, reinterpretation of their grand narratives (or symbolic world), the ultimate inclusion of the masses into the national project based on the post-gentry tradition and national history, the intensive development of urban lifestyle and the ex...
An anti-poet relentlessly, even ruthlessly determined to tell the truth, however painful it may be.--Edward Hirsch
"One of the most powerful recent achievements of the poet who has been called 'the chronicler of the 20th century', and recognised as one of Europe's outstanding artists. I am haunted by the vision of history and politics which I draw from Rózewicz." Tom Paulin Introduced by Adam Czerniawski. Translated by Tony Howard and Barbara Plebanek.
The description for this book, The Survivors and Other Poems, will be forthcoming.
Tadeusz Rozewicz is one of the outstanding figures in the generation of writers whose work was indelibly marked by Poland's traumatic and tragic war-time experience. 'What I produced is poetry for the horror-stricken. For those abandoned to butchery. For survivors.' Distrusting myths and archetypes, and rejecting traditional aesthetic values which struck him as offensive and gratuitous in the face of what he had witnessed, Rozewicz created a stark, direct poetry devoid of embellishment and rooted in common speech, fashioned as he has written 'out of a remnant of words, salvaged words, out of uninteresting words, words from the great rubbish dump, the great cemetery.'But Rozewicz's poetry is far from being confined to recording the horrors of the past. He is a natural social realist whose subject-matter has a very wide range, including friendship, love, eroticism, art, religion, ageing, death and the anxieties of modern civilisation. The appearance of this substantial selection, which is drawn from more than forty years of Rozewicz's prolific writing, coincides with his seventieth birthday.
Written in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rózewicz encompasses the complexity of human experience in the early 21st century. Rózewicz's unique voice, formed during his experiences as a member of the Polish resistance in World War II, and honed by decades living under communist rule, holds a merciless mirror up to the crimes and excesses of the poet's lifetime. In his eighties now, Rózewicz continues to be a prolific writer and an acerbic commentator on his life and times. This collection combines his latest three volumes: professor's knife, gray zone, and exit. These are extraordinary poems from an acknowledged European master.
Wybór wierszy i prozy Janusza Różewicza, wspomnienia o nim oraz Tadeusza Różewicza "Wiersze o Starszym Bracie".
This is the first comprehensive examination of the works of contemporary Polish playwright Tadeusz Rozewicz. Halina Filipowicz applies a theoretical perspective to more than a dozen plays and situates the important postwar dramatist on the borders of modernism and postmodernism, arguing that in his laboratory of impure forms he reworks the conventions and dramatic ideas of the past into a theatrical language responsive to our times. Filipowicz makes use of biographical and historical information, comparative frameworks, the lessons of deconstruction, and feminist inquiry to assess the writer's passionate and complex reactions to modern civilization. Written over a thirty-year period, Rozewic...
A unique mix of prose and poetry, of the joy of life and the agony of loss, Tadeusz Rozewicz creates a rich and complex portrait of his mother Stefania and of her indelible influence on her extraordinary family."