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Ostatni poemat Tadeusza Hołuja
Tadeusz Hołuj’s Ostatni poemat (The Last Poem)

Author(s): Marian Stępień
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: Tadeusz Hołuj; Polish literature; manuscript; politics; communism;

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the discovery of the manuscript of Tadeusz Hołuj’s Ostatni poemat czyli rozczulanie się nad samym sobą (The Last Poem, or Self-pity). The author presents the circumstances of the discovery and the general political situation under Stalinist regime, which almost led to Hołuj’s suicide. The main part of the article is devoted to the analysis of the poem, interpreted as a pessimistic autobiographical work.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 235-244
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish
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