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Miron Białoszewski ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈmirɔn bjawɔˈʂɛfskʲi]; born 30 June 1922, Warsaw; died 17 June 1983, Warsaw) was a Polish poet, novelist, playwright and actor . Biography. Białoszewski studied linguistics at the clandestine courses of the University of Warsaw during the German occupation of Poland.
For many readers and critics, Białoszewski's vision of Poland's biggest war effort was difficult to accept – focusing on the mundane details of everyday life of civilians in the besieged city and giving up on the pathos of the great national sacrifice felt like a betrayal of patriotic ideals.
Miron Białoszewski was an acclaimed poet, playwright, and prose writer. A volume of his work in translation is forthcoming from New York Review Books.
Mar 7, 2024 · Miron Białoszewski (1922–1983) was an acclaimed Polish poet, playwright, and prose writer, a volume of whose work will be published in English in 2025. Clare Cavanagh is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern.
Miron Białoszewski is unanimously considered to be one of the most significant writers of the Polish literature of the 20th century and a remarkable personality both in terms of his poetics and life philosophy.
Reading Polish poet Miron Białoszewski’s account of the Warsaw Uprising—the long two months in 1944 when Hitler’s forces, retreating, executed their orders to leave nothing of the city standing—feels as though you are sitting in a building that is being demolished.
Sep 9, 2023 · Born and raised in the independent Poland of the interwar period, Miron Białoszewski (1922-83) came of age during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw (1939-45), lived through the city’s utter destruction in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, and experienced both post-war poverty and the restrictions of the Communist system, whose fall he did not live to ...
