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Tadeusz Borowski
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12 November 1922 - 3 July 1951
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? 12.11.1922-1951) Polish writer, whose work became one of the brightest phenomena of prose of the first postwar years. He made his debut during the occupation with the poetic collection Somewhere in the Land (1942), which was printed on a hand hectograph in an underground printing house. Borovsky was arrested and spent two years in concentration camps. After the war, the collections of stories “Farewell to Mary” (1948) and “Stone World” (1948) were published. Borowski’s camp prose, written in a
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? 12.11.1922-1951)
Polish writer, whose work became one of the brightest phenomena of prose of the first postwar years. He made his debut during the occupation with the poetic collection Somewhere in the Land (1942), which was printed on a hand hectograph in an underground printing house. Borovsky was arrested and spent two years in concentration camps. After the war, the collections of stories “Farewell to Mary” (1948) and “Stone World” (1948) were published. Borowski’s camp prose, written in a manner of extremely harsh narrative, caused shock in Polish society. The narrator on whose behalf the story is being told is neither a hero nor a martyr, but an average “camp man” who tries to survive at all costs. The author removes any moral assessments, considering them inadequate to the inhuman world of camp life. Borovsky was accused of naturalism and even cynicism, identifying the hero-narrator with the author. A sense of guilt that he survived, as he thought, at the cost of the deaths of others, the difficult circumstances of literary life and creativity during the period of totalitarian power led to the fact that in 1951 Borovski committed suicide. His stories became textbook in Poland and translated in most countries of Europe and America. According to the prose of Borovsky A. Vajda shot one of his best films "Landscape after battle".