SELECTION OF POETRY BY JAROSŁAW IWASZKIEWICZ, 20TH CENTURY

Discover the richness of 20th-century Polish lyric poetry in a selection of poems by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz. This unique collection, encompassing various eras and styles, is a fascinating journey through the work of one of the most outstanding Polish poets. His poems, full of contradictions and tensions, show the depth of human experience, combining the affirmation of life with reflection on death, faith in art with doubts.

• Full cross-section of Iwaszkiewicz's work
• Selection of the most important works
• Contains erotic works from the Droga cycle
• Biographical background of the texts
• Notes on the dating of the poems
• Hardcover
• 992 pages

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's poetry, covering several eras of the development of 20th-century Polish lyric poetry, closed with a coda of extraordinary late poems, was an exceptionally rich phenomenon. Already the first volumes, giving the impression of being written by two different authors, indicated contradiction as the driving force of this work, the generator of the tensions contained in it, and the testimony of mediation between often extreme emotions and different philosophical statements. As a result, Iwaszkiewicz's poems gained the form of a record of the fullness of human experience.

They combine the affirmation of being and the negation of the meaning of existence, faith in the saving power of art and doubt encompassing human efforts. Activity and insatiability meet in them with contemplativeness and fascination with death. The coexistence of contradictions is in Iwaszkiewicz's poetry a form of Faustian fullness and becomes almost a cathartic force. Together with other literary genres cultivated by the writer, it forms a great autobiographical narrative.

Radosław Romaniuk presents the biographical background of the texts and enriches the usual information about the dating of poems in manuscripts with notes. He supplements the most important works from individual volumes with scattered texts or those that were removed for various reasons from the collected editions prepared during the writer's lifetime. He reconstructs cycles of autobiographical character important for the face of this poetry, such as the unique cycle of thirty homosexual erotic works Droga in Polish literature, inspired by the relationship with Jerzy Błeszyński.

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This collection of poetry is not only a read for lovers of Iwaszkiewicz, but also an ideal gift for anyone who appreciates deep and moving poetry. Immerse yourself in the world of words and emotions that will forever change your perception of the world. This book is an invitation to reflect and discover beauty in every verse. Ideal for students, teachers and all those who seek inspiration in literature.