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Crescendo albo polowanie na Parnickiego

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Markiewka T.

Świat i Słowo

2015

vol. 13

issue (2)25

233-244

The author of the article reviews the recent, two-volume critical edition of the correspondence between Jerzy Giedroyc and Teodor Parnicki. The letters of the editor of “Kultura” and the historical novelist living in Mexico City were written between 1946 and 1968 and document the period of Parnicki’s most intensive artistic work along with the problems the writer faced in that time. The author focuses mainly on the mechanisms of the Polish communist authorities’ “hunt for Parnicki” – the attempts to persuade the most sophisticated Polish historical novelist to leave the West and come to communist Poland, thus (indirectly) justifying and authorizing the regime. Persuasion usually took the form of financial pressure, yet the correspondence reveals a good deal of background information about Parnicki’s intellectual and existential loneliness at the time. Being trapped between the Polish emigration’s intellectual limitations and the restrictions of freedom in communist Poland, the writer realizes that his universalistic and cosmopolitan, non-nationalistic and anti-ideological vision of history is in fact fundamentally at odds with Polish culture and identity. The result of the loneliness was the artistic and intellectual complexity (a growing crescendo in Giedroyc’s terms) of Parnicki’s prose that, after his final moving to Poland in 1967, incorporated more and more self-reflective and autobiographical elements.

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