„Nieziemsko piękna / we wszechświecie rana” Figura homoseksualisty w wybranych wierszach Tadeusza Różewicza
“An unearthly beautiful wound in the universe” A homosexual figure in selected poems of Tadeusz Różewicz

Summary/Abstract: Homosexuality is not the head subject of Tadeusz Różewicz’s works, but it is worth to pay attention to the unusual model of masculinity, which he presents especially in the case of gays. The author analyses two Różewicz’s poems: Zakatrupiony and Tate Gallery Shop. In these texts high culture art is situated next to the common dirt and ‘shit of the world.’ This contrast is used to present the main characters’ corporeality as problematic and depict their sexuality as stigmatic. Unexpected references to camp aesthetics are adjacent to the turpist ugliness and physiology of death. Różewicz’s interest in the social margin, due to the ‘pop’ tricks like fragment and assembly techniques typical for the fine and visual arts, alludes to the painting and film contexts of poems, as well as to the biographies of the heroes of these texts: Piero Paolo Pasolini and Francis Bacon. It effectively directs the readers’ attention to the problems of contemporary world which are important for the poet.

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