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Baniewicz E., Kulesza M.

Pamiętnik Teatralny

2004

vol. 53

issue 1-4

785-815

Two studies by E. Baniewicz and M. Kulesza discuss the presence of Gombrowicz and his works on TV and radio. Baniewicz describes and interprets all the adaptations of Gombrowicz's plays and fiction produced by the Polish TV. Despite a rather glum title of her text (We Are Not Always Sent into Transports of Delight), Baniewicz praises Ferdydurke directed by M. Wojtyszko, the Trans-Atlantyk directed by M. Grabowski, and most of all - J. Grzegorzewski's Operetta. Kulesza, in turn, takes a look at the history of Gombrowicz's presence on the air, starting - somewhat ironically - with a speech delivered in 1953 by the Communist politician J. Cyrankiewicz, then Deputy Prime Minister of Poland. Cyrankiewicz, whose words were being broadcast, viciously attacked Gombrowicz for his allegedly reactionary, decadent, and anti-Polish views expressed in the Diary, thus putting the writer on the blacklist of every censor in Poland. It was only after the October of 1956 that Gombrowicz could again be mentioned on the radio, but even then everything relating to his works remained subject to censorship until the collapse of the socialistic regime. Despite these limitations Gombrowicz began to appear on the air as a discussion topic in cultural programmes and documentaries while his literary works were presented in two forms: they were read aloud and performed in radio theatre. Kulesza gives a synthetic historical account of this phenomenon, paying much attention not only to its political context but also to its artistic and intellectual value.

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