Różewicz’s identity narratives. The (un)completed project Cover Image

Tożsamościowe narracje Różewicza. Projekt (nie)dokończony
Różewicz’s identity narratives. The (un)completed project

Author(s): Agata Stankowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Essay|Book Review |Scientific Life, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Polish modern literature; Tadeusz Różewicz; identity; anthropology literature; regionalism

Summary/Abstract: Wojciech Browarny’s book entitled Tadeusz Różewicz i nowoczesna tożsamość is an ingenious, reliable and intelligent attempt to interpret Różewicz’s prose as an artistic study, a testimony, or a reflection on the identity of the man the second half of the twentieth century. The author reads short stories, essays, biographical sketches and memoirs, reports, diary fragments, and selected meta-literary texts by the poet as a polyphony bound with the matrix of identity narrative, profiled both to the fate of a contemporary Pole and Różewicz’s own biography. The identity reflection is interpreted here as a record of “self-creation in culture,” synonymous with “individual proposal of understanding of the collective and the shared in the individual experience” as an expression of “interpretation of role models, a description of the relation between the old and new images of human culture, an attempt to merge personal experience with historical memory and traditions present in the modernity.”

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 295-302
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish