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(Nie)istniejąca książka Miłosza o Ameryce lat czterdziestych

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Pietrych P.

Przekładaniec. Półrocznik Katedry UNESCO do Badań nad Przekładem i Komunikacja Miedzykulturowa UJ

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2011

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issue 25

28-45

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This paper sketches Miłosz’s (non)-existing book on America which consists of his numerous articles and columns written during his first stay in the United States from 1946 to 1950. They were published in the Polish literary press, often under a pen name (such as “Jan M. Nowak” or “Żagarysta”). The book is a significant record of the period: political transformations at the beginning of the Cold War and Anti-Americanism, popular among the European intellectuals in the late 1940s.

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Wat w Polsce powojennej. Tezy

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Pietrych P.

Colloquia Litteraria

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2012

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vol. 12

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issue 1

35-64

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Wat in postwar Poland. Theses A postwar period (1946–1953) in Wat’s literary output is usually omitted by the critics (exceptions are Venclova and Ritz). Difficulties in making comments on this period perhaps stem from that which does not usually fit what critics write about Wat (for instance, that fact that since his arrival from Kazakhstan he was a confirmed anticommunist) and what he published then. A puzzling is the presence in Wat’s works (e.g. in Antyzoil) unanimous declarations of the support for the postwar political order. However, when Wat followed some voice of disagreement, it sounded silent, unconvincing (criticism of the project of realism in literature). A positive involvement in Polish reality at that time was certainly connected with Wat’s personal experiences who, having arrived from his wandering from the Soviet Union to Poland, felt it as “paradise” (this is the name he referred to Poland in Mój wiek [My Century]), seemed not to perceive that it was only a “sham” of paradise. Besides, Wat wanted to participate in Polish cultural life, especially because in postwar years he started to feel literary unfulfilment and a strong need to return to writing. A particularly meaningful example in this context is Wat’s unsuccessful drama of Kobiety z Monte Olivetto [Women from Monte Olivetto] – the writing of which was for the poet the act of desperation and it created a paradox: wanting to participate in postwar literary life in Poland, Wat decided to “collaborate with Social Realism” (Zdzisław Łapiński’s definition), in order to achieve his goal.

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Tadeusz Różewicz pisze wiersze w roku 1946, czyli poeta modernistyczny wobec wojny

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Pietrych P.

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka

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2014

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issue 24

256-267

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The starting point for the remarks on the early oeuvre of Tadeusz Różewicz is the poem “Śmierć podchorążego” (“Death of a Cadet”) published in 1946 in the weekly Odrodzenie, and later included by the author in his famous volume Niepokój (1947) – which, however, was not reprinted later. “Śmierć podchorążego” shows fascination of young Różewicz with avant-garde poetry, especially the poetry of his contemporary master – Julian Przyboś. However, what is finally more interesting, the poem shows also-different than in the poem emblematic for Różewicz’s writings “Ocalony”-the attitude of the young poet to the subject of war. This different attitude is visible in his poetics as well as the interpretation of war experience included in this poem. Although, apart from the differences between “Śmierć podchorążego” and “Ocalony” there are also similarities. In both, Różewicz, as befits a modernist poet, tries to realize the postulate of the search for “new things”, which he formulated in his poetic manifesto published in April 1945.

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Wat plus inflacja (w humanistyce)

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Pietrych P.

Czytanie Literatury. Łódzkie Studia Literaturoznawcze

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2016

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issue 5

317-337

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Even if the title of Marta Baron-Milian’s book – Wat Plus VAT. Relationships between Literature and Economy in the works by Aleksander Wat (Wat plus Vat. Związki literatury i ekonomii w twórczości Aleksandra Wata) – implies that the publication offers an overtly original approach to the works by the man responsible for such masterpieces as My Century (Mój wiek), the reader will be quite bitterly disappointed. Undoubtedly, Baron-Milian is well-read as far as authorities of the modern humanities are concerned, and she skilfully operates its glossary of terms. Her interpretations of Wat’s works, however, tend to be questionable and unconvincing in nature, and quite often just arbitrary, since she approaches their historical and literary contexts with an astonishing and hardly acceptable flippancy, subordinating her interpretations to the theses accepted a priori. In her book, Baron-Milian provides a distinct and yet probably unintentional example of rhetoric ‘inflation’ within the modern humanities.

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Tytuł książki Marty Baron-Milian Wat plus Vat. Związki literatury i ekonomii w twórczości Aleksandra Wata wprowadza sugestię, że mamy do czynienia z oryginalnym ujęciem utworów autora Mojego wieku, ale czytelnika tej pracy czeka niemiłe rozczarowanie. Autorka, niewątpliwie oczytana w autorytetach współczesnej humanistyki, sprawnie posługuje się jej instrumentarium pojęciowym, natomiast teksty samego Wata interpretuje w sposób dyskusyjny, nieprzekonujący i nierzadko po prostu dowolny, z zadziwiającą i trudną do przyjęcia dezynwolturą traktuje bowiem ich historyczne i historycznoliterackie konteksty, podporządkowując swoje odczytania apriorycznie przyjętym tezom. Baron-Milian daje w swojej książce wyrazisty, choć zapewne mimowolny, przykład retorycznej „inflacji” we współczesnej humanistyce.

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(Nie)istniejąca książka Miłosza o Ameryce lat czterdziestych

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