COMMUNISM, SOCIALIST REALISM, OPPOSITION: POSTWAR HISTORY OF SEVERAL POLISH POETS. ON A BOOK 'AVALANCHE AND STONES' BY ANNA BIKONT AND JOANNA SZCZESNA (.... Wokól ksiazki Anny Bikont i Joanny Szczesnej 'Lawina i kamienie')

• Authors: Kulesza Dariusz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The concern of the article is a book by Anna Bikont and Joanna Szczesna 'Avalanche and Stones. Writers and Communism', which gives an account of six Polish writers, i.e. Jerzy Andrzejewski, Tadeusz Borowski, Kazimierz Brandys, Tadeusz Konwicki, Adam Wazyk, and Wiktor Woroszylski. It starts with the poets' postwar involvement into communism and socialist realism, and leads through the Party's revisionism to their anti-Polish People's Republic activities as oppositionists. Commenting on the protagonists' fortunes as presented in the book in question, the author takes advantage of the literary-history context, refers to political-literary personal tensions (most of all between Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski, Zbigniew Herbert and Czeslaw Milosz), and pays attention to vital subjects of Polish postwar history, of which most considerable is the origin and ethos of political opposition.

Keywords

EN

'AVALANCHE AND STONES'; ANDRZEJEWSKI JERZY; BIKONT ANNA; BOROWSKI TADEUSZ; BRANDYS KAZIMIERZ; HERBERT ZBIGNIEW; HERLING-GRUDZINSKI GUSTAW; KONWICKI RADEUSZ; MILOSZ CZESLAW; SZCZESNA JOANNA; WAZYK ADAM; WOROSZYLSKI WIKTOR

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 57-84
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kulesza Dariusz

• Dariusz Kulesza, Uniwersytet w Bialymstoku, ul.M. Sklodowskiej-Curie 14, 15-097 Bialystok, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA065021