Rytmy i wybrane aspekty recepcji Johannesa Bobrowskiego w Polsce
Rhythms and Selected Aspects of the Reception of Johannes Bobrowski in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The history of the reception in Poland of the work of the East Prussian writer Johannes Bobrowski has been recorded mainly in regional academic circles. His anti-communism stance was concealed in the official press of the People’s Republic of Poland, and it was revealed that he had moved to East Germany in 1949. Bobrowski’s works were read from the perspective of German guilt – not just for the crimes of World War II, but for earlier ones as well. Polish literary critics emphasised the fact that the German author closely combined original poetics with ethics, and was a spokesman for German-Polish understanding. The reception of Bobrowski revealed a certain polonocentrism, as well as a relationship with the shaping of modern regionalism. This author’s texts thus became the subject for reflection on geopoetics. At the beginning of the 21st century, the writer was also observed to be a trickster in the anthropological sense of the word.

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