Pomarańcza dla Juliana Kornhausera
An Orange for Julian Kornhauser

Summary/Abstract: Re-examining Julian Kornhauser’s early poetic and prose work, Bogalecki highlights the many references to the Jewish religious tradition and the key role they play. The metaphor of Marranism allows Bogalecki to show that Judaism is a hidden tradition in Kornhauser’s work of the mid-1970s. It appears in veiled form in his debut poetry collection Nastanie święto i dla leniuchów (“Coming of the Holiday for the Slothful”, 1972) as well as in his first novel, Kilka chwil (“A Few Moments”, 1975). The novel, Bogalecki argues, presents a telling but not quite explicit literary dialogue with the poet’s father, Jakub Kornhauser, a Dachau survivor who died in 1972.

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