The subject of the article is to present an outline of the reception of Julian Tuwim’s works in the last decade. “The Prince of Poets” of the interwar period, well known in the post-war era, is less and less known today. Post-war generations of poets made no particular references to Tuwim and his poetry, and even though many critical works are being published about him, Tuwim’s works do not engage critics who would be able to reconnect his writing with the contemporary world. Tuwim is disappearing from school literary curricula, contemporary readers remember only his children’s poems and one can doubt whether this situation can be changed by an extensive, multifaceted work by Piotr Matywiecki Twarz Tuwima (Tuwim’s face), the comprehensive and readable biography of the poet. It is an important book which tackles a number of vital questions concerning for instance the tragic alienation of the Polish Jew who lived between two cultures and wanted to be excluded from neither.
The article aims to persuade readers of an idea based on the notion that the act of reading can be and is heavily influenced by methods, habits, socio-economic status, the fact whether it is done privately or in the open. On the one hand, there is a professional reader — student, teacher, writer. On the other, there is reading privately for pleasure. My interest and area of expertise — so to speak — is mostly the effect the act of reading has on "a private reader", such as the dark side of identity issues, existential problems.
The subject of the article is to present an outline of the reception of Julian Tuwim’s works in the last decade. “The Prince of Poets” of the interwar period, well known in the post-war era, is less and less known today. Post-war generations of poets made no particular references to Tuwim and his poetry, and even though many critical works are being published about him, Tuwim’s works do not engage critics who would be able to reconnect his writing with the contemporary world. Tuwim is disappearing from school literary curricula, contemporary readers remember only his children’s poems and one can doubt whether this situation can be changed by an extensive, multifaceted work by Piotr Matywiecki Twarz Tuwima (Tuwim’s face), the comprehensive and readable biography of the poet. It is an important book which tackles a number of vital questions concerning for instance the tragic alienation of the Polish Jew who lived between two cultures and wanted to be excluded from neither.
Otwierający tom Wyjście wiersz *** biel się nie smuci autorka traktuje jako istotne wprowadzenie do tomu, którego interpretację zaczyna od konfrontacji tytułu z obrazem na okładce. Wagę wiersza o bieli podkreśla dwojaki zapis – wersja drukowana (czarne litery) i negatyw rękopisu (białe litery). Motyw bieli – w twórczości Różewicza stale obecny, będący znakiem wielofunkcyjnym, odsyła autorkę do wiersza Biel, w którym poeta opłakiwał baranka. Analiza utworu pozwala wnioskować, że jest on zapisem zamierania zmysłów, wrażeń, pamięci, słów. Aluzyjnie przywołana figura baranka, który „gładzi grzechy świata” wnosi sens eschatologiczny. Biel rozjaśnia śmierć, jest tutaj znakiem doskonałej niewiedzy, tego, co niepoznawalne i niewyrażalne. Biel łączy „szarą strefę” z cierpieniem (które oczyszcza) i śmiercią (człowieka, poezji). Wobec bankructwa słów zużytych, biel jako znak ciszy i milczenia prowadzi poetę do „wyjścia” – poza rzeczywistość otaczającego świata, w strefę ciszy i milczenia. O śmierci poeta nie mówi, wyręcza się typografią (na białej kartce czarne litery, na czarnej – białe), dialogiem, grą z jej kulturowymi wyobrażeniami.
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