“Twarz” by Tadeusz Różewicz – Text Variants/ Constructing a Poem Cover Image

Twarz Tadeusza Różewicza – warianty tekstu/ budowanie wiersza
“Twarz” by Tadeusz Różewicz – Text Variants/ Constructing a Poem

Author(s): Tomasz Cieślak
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Tadeusz Różewicz; 20th-century Polish lyrical poetry; motif of face; genetic criticism;

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a study of Tadeusz Różewicz’s text-creating activities, as evidenced by a handwritten page (currently held in the Ossolineum archives in Wrocław) dated by the poet June 13, 1968. The subject of the analysis is the process of building the poem “Twarz,” which was published, in a slightly changed form, as “Koniec” in the volume Regio (1969). Notes on the margins of the main text, present in three versions, open up historical and personal contexts related to the Holocaust, the anti-Semitic campaign of the state authorities of the Polish People’s Republic in March 1968, and to the May 68 revolt in Paris.

  • Issue Year: 19/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-96
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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