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ALEKSANDER WAT ON RUSSIAN BORIS PASTERNAK AND ILYA EHRENBURG (Aleksander Wat o pisarzach rosyjskich. Borys Pasternak i Ilija Erenburg)

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Fast P.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2010
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vol. 101
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issue 3
151-163
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Aleksander Wat showed his avid interest in Russian literary process. The interests focused mostly on 20th century literature, though Wat knew older literature very well (he translated, inter alia, Dostoyevsky into Polish). In his recollections and commentaries, essays, diaries, and letters, a lot of space was dedicated to Russian writers. The article contains and comments upon the two writers on whom Wat focuses the most in his aforementioned scattered fragments - Boris Pasternak and Ilya Ehrenburg. Concentrating on one of the most famous Russian 20th century novels - 'Doctor Zhivago', Wat shows the novel's 'technological' awkwardness, however he highlights its prominent function in understanding Russian history in the last century. Attention is also paid to Ilya Ehrenburg (whose few books Wat translated into Polish), depicted from the perspective of the choices Ehrenburg made in his life and his ability to conform to the requirements of the current political situation. The criterium for reflections here is the ethical dimension of Ehrenburg's actions and papers.
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A 'LAMPOON ON SOCIAL-REALISM'? ON ALEKSANDER WAT'S 'ANTYZOIL'

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Pietrych P.
Pamiętnik Literacki
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2007
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vol. 98
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issue 3
93-122
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Aleksander Wat's broad article entitled 'Antyzoil or recollection in conclusion of the year' published in February 1948 was misapprehended, shadowed with a legend by the author, and accepted by literary scholars as a 'lampoon on social-realism'. Under careful scrutiny, it proves a convoluted and ambiguous text in which the polemics with the postulate of realism formulated around the Marxist 'Kuznica' (Forge) leads to the praise of literature growing up from explicit ideological choices, and surprising from Wat's perspective acceptance of political changes in post-war Poland is linked with declarations of trust in free development of literature in such conditions. Ambiguity of 'Antyzoil' sheds light on the intellectual and moralizing aspirations of the author and on the paradoxes that the literary figures of the second part of the 1940s faced, when the monopolist power was strengthened by the Communist, though in literature a relatively liberal slogan of 'smooth revolution' was still in presence.
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