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This essay contains recollections of the working relationship between Tadeusz Różewicz and two of his British translators between 1990 and his death in 2014. It includes quotations from their correspondence. The essay is particularly focused on the first London production of Kartoteka, over forty years after its Warsaw premiere, and on the British reception of Różewicz's late works recycling and Mother Departs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Zofia and Władysław Jarema – the founders of the Groteska Theatre – from the beginning of their artitistic work in Krakow distanced themselves from perceiving the theatre of dolls as exclusively children-oriented. By gathering around themselves a group of distinguished artists, they consistently and reasonably built up the repertoire and Groteska stage for the adult audience. In their search, they included Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, Sławomir Mrożek, and Tadeusz Różewicz. This paper is an attempt at analysing and reconstructing the performance of Kartoteka (a drama by Różewicz), which was staged in Groteska Theatre (interpretation by Zofia Jarema, stage design by Kazimierz Mikulski) a few months after its Warsaw preview in the Drama Theatre. The author of the paper also discusses the type of influence which this performance and the Jaremas’ activity in general had on the contemporary theatre of dolls.

Tadeusz Różewicz celowo unikał w swojej twórczości motywów muzycznych, jednak liczni polscy kompozytorzy z różnych pokoleń umuzyczniają jego lirykę. W 1969 roku Kazimierz Serocki napisał cykl pieśni (na sopran i zespół kameralny) zatytułowany Poezje (prawykonanie – w jęz. niemieckim – Dorothy Dorow na festiwalu Warszawska Jesień, 1969). Serocki wybrał cztery wiersze z tomu Twarz (wyd. II uzupełnione, 1966) i ułożył z nich sugestywną opowieść o samotności, pustce, bólu doznawania świata. W artykule zanalizowano muzyczne narzędzia narracji, ekspresji i kolorystyki dźwiękowej zastosowane przez kompozytora.

Mickiewicz, poetry and anecdote. Questions about the identity of the creator in poem Ten to też by Tadeusz Różewicz The paper addresses narrative strategies applied by Tadeusz Różewicz in his poem Ten to też (This is also) from the volume Szara strefa (Grey zone), an imagined episode in Adam Mickiewicz’s life. The analysis of the ironic intertextual play with the genre of epistolary reminiscences shows the contemporary writer’s struggle with the Romantic myth of the outstanding, pioneering poet. In the light of parallel experiences of living and writing, Różewicz’s dilemmas of an artist and a human being can be shown by means of an apparently amusing story of a social insult. The biographical anecdote turns out to be a latent attempt at an autobiographical utterance.

This article proposes an interpretation of Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait as Zeuxis Laughing (Wallraf- -Richartz Museum, Cologne) as it appears in Tadeusz Różewicz’s poem Mirror. The 17th-century Dutch artist was known as a painter who portrayed the human body as it really is, i.e. with all its imperfections and changes that are brought about by the passage of time. He has also been regarded as a master who expressed the disappearance and decay of form (Simmel) and the anticipation of death (Malraux) by using an unconventional technique. Różewicz “appropriated” Rembrandt’s face to speak of the inevitability of getting old and dying, the limits of Logos and poetry as well as the powerlessness of a poet whose fatal destiny is to describe and testify to suffering. Rembrandt’s figure appears in a flash of light, but at the same time seems to melt into thick paint, to disappear, like the poet’s words on the surface of silence, thus suggestively representing the moment of the subject’s transformation and crossing the border between life and death, the artist’s withdrawal from the world and last breath as well as the limits of literature, i.e. the loss of discourse. In this poetic epiphany, Rembrandt is – let us refer to Harold Bloom’s famous concept of apophrades – the great dead returning in Różewicz’s work.