Poeta „w błazeńskiej czapce na głowie”
The Poet “in a Fool’s Cap on His Head”

The Comical in/of Różewicz

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper poses the question about the role of the comical/ridicule in Tadeusz Różewicz’s work and about the feeling of comical connected with pursuing poetic practice that accompanies the poet himself. Referring to the first aspect, the author discusses three phases of Różewicz’s creation that allows to depict the changes performed by the comical element in satirical poems composed in the 1940s and 1950s, in comedies written in the 1960s, and in late collections of poems created in the 1990s and in 2000s. The author’s main subject of interest, though, is Różewicz’s artistic strategy in which the figure of the author is a comical counterpoint of writing, while deliberate distortion of the rules of appropriateness and good taste proves to be an element of struggle with official seriousness, aesthetic platitude and falsehood the latter of which accompanies community forms of celebrating the art.

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