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• Title:
  “We will be dismissed by poets, solicitors, philosophers and priests”. The latest stage of the “Borowski dispute”
• Creator:
  Krupa, Bartłomiej
• Description:
  In this article, I review the history of the “Borowski case” and place special emphasis on the latest dispute over the author of “Pożegnanie z Marią” which broke out between Andrzej Werner and archbishop Tadeusz Życiński. A recapitulation of the most significant features of the contradictory mental traditions of martyrdom literature and Borowski’s prose is followed by a discussion of the discourses from the 1940s. In the subsequent part of the article, I present the dispute over Borowski from the 1970s which accompanied the publication of Ucieczka z kamiennego świata by Tadeusz Drewnowski. Reference has also been made to the reviews from the 1980s by Jan Walec, Anna Łukowska and Małgorzata Dziewulska. A major part of the article has been devoted to the dispute over Tadeusz Borowski’s life choices and works published in 2007 in “Gazeta Wyborcza”. It was a dispute between Tadeusz Życiński who accused Borowski of “hatred of the differently minded” and Andrzej Werner who defended the writer. A moderate statement by Sławomir Buryła shed more light on the dispute; in his text entitled Katoliczka, patriotka, antysemitka (2008) he emphasized Borowski’s radical moralism. In this article, I provide the reason for Życiński’s ostentatious repetition of the seemingly out-of-date arguments against Borowski, I indicate the culture-related context of the archbishop’s opinion (the conservative Polish Catholic hierarchy). It was expressed at a time when a new list of required reading books was being created in 2007: Borowski’s stories from the Auschwitz concentration camp were to be replaced with a novel by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2016.03.04
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  Polish;
  pol
• Source:
  Poznań Polish Studies. Literary Series; No. 26 (2015): Niezgoda buduje. Polskie spory o literaturę; 13-49;
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka; Nr 26 (2015): Niezgoda buduje. Polskie spory o literaturę; 13-49;
  2450-4947;
  1233-8680
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/5065/5145
• Subject:
  Tadeusz Borowski;
  Zofia Kossak;
  literary criticism;
  Auschwitz;
  concentration camp memoirs;
  opinion journalism
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/5065
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  other