Tadeusz Różewicz in the Sudeten

Abstract

The article presents the literary texts of the author of Szklarka Waterfall and the main themes of his work and biography related to these mountains. The author of the article discusses the post-war experiences and poems of Różewicz, as well as his late works devoted to the Karkonosze Mountains, written at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The purpose of this analysis is a historical and regional reconstruction of the poetics of his works, which are a dialogue with the topography, the past, and the material and symbolic heritage of the Sudeten and their Foothills. The analysis in the article is accompanied by the following questions: What relations connected Różewicz’s literary work on the Sudeten and his biography with the process of their Polonization? Which of the crucial elements of the history, tradition and cultural heritage of these mountains did the writer include in his works? The author of the article primarily uses geocriticism, combining it with the history and so-called new regionalism. The main conclusion of the analysis is that the integral creative presence of Różewicz in the Sudeten consisted in a conscious, created by the poet, connection of his writing and biography with the environment, culture and social life of the region.