This article reflects on the politically biased censorship practices towards the dramas of Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki. It also discusses the censorship conducted by the “UKPPiW” office of the new re-interpretations of Romantic literary tradition, which alluded to the stereotypical functionof adolescence. The author concentrates on the conflicting attitudes of the New Wave poets and censors. The first group perceived the Romantic nonconformists as their ancestors while the second was concerned aboutthe concept of Romantic youth understood as imperative contestation of reality.
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