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WHY WAS GUSTAW HERLING-GRUDZINSKI AFRAID OF MEETING WITOLD GOMBROWICZ ? (Dlaczego Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski bal sie spotkac z Witoldem Gombrowiczem?)

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Bielecki M.
Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
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2008
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issue 3(111)
88-110
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This article explores the specific biographical and literary/intertextual relationship between Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski and Witold Gombrowicz. Their biographic relations are unclear: Herling-Grudzinski first met Gombrowicz between the two world wars but did not renew the acquaintance with Witold when WW2 was over, although both authors were contributing at that time to the Paris-based 'Kultura' monthly. The reason might have been that Gombrowicz's ideological and philosophical stance was unacceptable to him. Hence, Herling-Grudzinski's continual engagement in polemics with Gombrowicz, which actually started in 1938 with his highly critical review of the novel 'Ferdydurke', and was subsequently continued in his multivolume diary 'Dziennik pisany noca'. The dispute was formally expressed in the area of the poetics of diary but concerned issues more fundamental than that: the way literature is (to be) understood, the writer's duty with respect to (a) community and, first and foremost, the concept of reality and a model of subjectivity (human being).
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THE LEGEND OF ST JANUARIUS AND THE STORY OF TOMMASO MASANIELLO IN THE MIRACLE BY GUSTAW HERLING-GRUDZINSKI

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Przybylska A.
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2007
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vol. 48
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issue 6(285)
547-563
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Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski's 'The Miracle' shows the Neapolitan celebrations of the feast day of St Januarius (Gennaro) after 1964, ie. when the cult was officially endorsed by the Church. In the story the character of St Januarius is created out of legend and history. The narrator notes some characteristic traits of the saint's cult and looks for their analogies in Polish religious life. His descriptions also include Naples' ethnological background, which is used to explain the roots of the popular rebellion of 1647. Finally, from a selective combination of historical facts he creates a portrait of Masaniella, the leader of the revolt. Herling-Grudzinski's schematic, psychologically hollow characterization makes the seventeenth-century Neapolitan revolutionary both a universal type and a figure open to interpretations in contexts not evoked by the story (eg. Poland's contemporary history).
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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')

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Kulesza D.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2009
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vol. 100
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issue 2
57-84
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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.
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