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Tadeusz Rózewicz is one of the most original twentieth-century Polish writers. His poetry, drama, and prose works, which have gained him a high reputation at home and abroad, are both innovat...
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Critical Essay by Julian Symons
Tart, cool, devoted to "a poetry which may again become anonymous," Rosewicz writes about a ruined world and the fragmentation of personality. His poems w...
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Critical Essay by CzesŁaw MiŁosz
Tadeusz Różewicz issued from a white-collar worker's family in a provincial town and during the war was a soldier in a guerilla unit...
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Critical Essay by Magnus Jan Krynski and Robert A. Maguire
[The traumatic experiences of World War II pervade all of Różewicz's writing], directly and indirectly. Of course, he is...
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Critical Essay by Roberta Tovey
The translation [of "The Survivor" and Other Poems] is fine, though an occasional over-dramatization mars the earlier poems which tread a very subtle line...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
Were I to recite in full detail all the elements which compose the play White Marriage I would still not convey its extraordinary quality….
It is at once satire...
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Critical Essay by Jack Kroll
Rozewicz is not only a wonderful writer, he has a quality so precious that you are astonished when you sense its presence: he possesses a beautiful mind. So did Anton Chek...
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Critical Essay by Rochelle K. Stone
[Poezje zebrane is a collection of sixteen books of poetry by Tadeusz Różewicz and] marks the thirteenth anniversary of Różewicz'...
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Critical Essay by Jonathon Aaron
[Różewicz] tends in his poems to reflect a cold fury, the rage of someone who has been personally betrayed…. [His poems] show the anguish of a per...
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Critical Essay by Alice-catherine Carls
Characteristic of Różewicz's poetry are the tensions which enclose his poetic material in a dense weaving: tensions between stories of his ...
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In the following review, Czerwinski takes issue with some of the translations in Różewicz's “The Survivor” and Other Poems.
The best way to judge whether Tadeusz R&#...
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In the following excerpt, Możejko praises Różewicz's style in Überblendungen.
Überblendungen (Penetrations) is an attempt to give a cross section of Tadeusz R...
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In the following review, Levine asserts that Różewicz's Poezja demonstrates how the poet's work “has come full circle.”
The fruits of almost forty years of po...
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In the following essay, Filipowicz traces the different feminist readings of Różewicz's White Marriage.
Why Tadeusz Różewicz's White Marriage (Białe ma...
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Coates is an assistant professor of English at McGill University and author of literary theory. In the following essay, he analyzes the differing styles of Zbigniew Herbert and Tadeusz Ró...
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In the following essay, Filipowicz asserts that in his trilogy of works—The Interrupted Act, Birth Rate, and “The Guards”—Różewicz “strives to return t...
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In the following essay, Baniewicz discusses why Różewicz's Do piachu met with such controversy in Poland.
Art is rarely one of the early fruits of revolution. Today Polish artists...
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In the following excerpt, Aaron praises Różewicz's “The Survivor” and Other Poems.
Tadeusz Różewicz, strongly present in [Czeslaw] Milosz's anth...
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In the following excerpt, Marx traces Różewicz's attempt to capture life in postwar Poland through the poetry of They Came to See a Poet.
Now in his 70's, Polish poet Tadeu...
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In the following review, Carpenter points out some of the strengths and weaknesses in Różewicz's poetry from Conversation with the Prince and Other Poems.
It is welcome to have Ad...
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In the following essay, Sokoloski reassesses Różewicz's work as the writer enters a new phase in his career upon turning seventy.
The year 1991 marked Tadeusz Różewi...
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In the following review, Carls discusses the different styles Różewicz employs in his poetry.
It is the policy of Polish publishers to print a few thousand copies of a work, thus making ...
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In the following review, Meyer compares two different translations of Różewicz's Płaskorzeźba.
Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–), one of the greatest liv...
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In the following essay, Sokoloski delineates the evolution of the Polish verse form, specifically Różewicz's contributions to verse construction.
The following paper seeks to reex...
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In the following essay, Filipowicz provides an overview of Różewicz's life and career.
Although Sławomir Mrożek is the best-known Polish dramatist in the West, it is...
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In the following essay, Shorter recounts what it is like to experience Różewicz's Birthrate in the theater.
Ought we to be primed for the play? Should we get ready for it, like st...
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In the following essay, Hauptman discusses how Różewicz seeks to overcome his pessimism through his poetry.
“Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich … ?”
Rainer Ma...
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In the following essay, Czerwinski discusses the state of the theater in post-solidarity Poland.
The classics are back and East European theatres are feasting on them. It is that time again when the w...
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In the following essay, Filipowicz asserts that Różewicz's The Card Index exhibits an open dramaturgy and a rejection of literary conventions which have caused a strong impact on ...
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In the following essay, Gerould traces the Laocoön myth and its role in Różewicz's The Laocoön Group.
FATHER I had a bit of bad luck. I get there, I go over to the b...
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In the following essay, Fodor discusses his translation of Różewicz's poetry into Hungarian and Różewicz's relationship to Hungarian poetry.
Tadeusz Ró...
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Tadeusz Rozewicz
Critical Essay by Julian Symons
