“A Legless Hunchback with a Beautiful Face”. Portraying Salomon Bart Cover Image

„Beznogi garbus o pięknej twarzy”. Szkic do portretu Sołomona Barta
“A Legless Hunchback with a Beautiful Face”. Portraying Salomon Bart

Author(s): Marian Kisiel
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Russian Literature, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Solomon Bart; Poetry of the Silver Age; Russian Emigration; Literaturnoe Sodruzhestvo; Warsaw Ghetto

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to Salomon Bart (1885-1941), a poet and an emigrant, who moved to Warsaw after the October Revolution. In the 1930s, he joined Literaturnoe Sodruzhestvo, which gathered Russian intellectuals and artists in Poland. He published five volumes of poetry, focusing predominantly on death. Even during his lifetime, he was considered a peculiar poet. In October of 1940, he was transported to and held in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he died of hunger.

  • Issue Year: 1/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 51-61
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish