Cenzura wobec powojennej twórczości Leopolda Staffa. Przypadek Wikliny
Censorship of Leopold Staff’s Post-War Work: The Case of Wiklina [Osiers]

Summary/Abstract: Budrowska describes the attitude of the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic towards the poet Leopold Staff (1878-1957) in the period 1945-57. Discussing the censorship of his works she focuses on his 1954 poetry collection Wiklina [Osiers]. Mostof the archival materials from the Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows(GUKPPiW) that inform this article have not yet been examined by literary scholars. Theyindicate the following findings: first, in the years 1952-53 books by Staff were banned from publication; second, the printing of the collection Wiklina (1953) was a turning point in the poet’s life and a harbinger of the thaw; and third, the censors interfered with the structure of the volume removing its cyclical structure and altering the order of the poems.

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