Just Like Dark Huge Crickets. On Tadeusz Breza’s Vatican “Duology” (Spiżowa brama and Urząd) Cover Image

Jak ogromne mroczne świerszcze. O watykańskiej „dylogii” (Spiżowa brama i Urząd) Tadeusza Brezy
Just Like Dark Huge Crickets. On Tadeusz Breza’s Vatican “Duology” (Spiżowa brama and Urząd)

Author(s): Ewa Graczyk
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Vatican; homosexuality; pre‑emancipatory homosexual literature

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on Tadeusz Breza’s (1905–1970) two texts published in 1960: Spiżowa brama, a literary reportage, and Urząd, a novel. The latter work is analysed in the context of the former in order to demonstrate that both texts might be treated as a partly concealed story of the undisclosed homosexual desire infiltrating the Catholic Church. Moreover, the writer’s attitude to communism is yet another issue encoded in Urząd.

  • Issue Year: 3/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 1-14
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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