From manuscript to first printed edition. On the early variants of the poem “Ranny” by Tadeusz Różewicz

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec

doi:10.18778/1505-9057.55.11

Authors

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec Ph.D. hab., Professor of University of Lodz, University of Lodz, Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3280-1411

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9057.55.11

Keywords:

Tadeusz Różewicz – poetry, literary archive, manuscripts, Odrodzenie weekly

Abstract

Tadeusz Różewicz was a poet for whom works of literature, poetry in particular, were never finite entities. He often changed his poems in consecutive editions. This article discusses the poem Ranny, several versions of which have survived, and which was included in Różewicz’s first poetic collection entitled Niepokój (1947). The discussion applies to the initial four versions of the poem: its evolution starting with the manuscript kept in the archive of the writer’s brother (Stanisław Różewicz), through two typescripts kept in the Archive of the “Odrodzenie” journal, to the first printed edition from that journal. The changes introduced by the poet, who in his actions seems true to the principles of the avant-garde, striving to fulfil the principle proposed by Julian Przyboś, whom he considered a master: the least words, the most content.

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Author Biography

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec, Ph.D. hab., Professor of University of Lodz, University of Lodz, Chair of Polish Literature of the 20th and 21st Century, ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź

Marzena Woźniak-Łabieniec, Ph.D. hab., professor of the University of Lodz, Polish literary historian; her main focus covers the matters related to censorship in the People’s Republic of Poland (PRL) and the impact of systemic control of publications on literary life; she also researches 20th century and the latest prose, especially in terms of its relations with classicism and the broadly understood tradition. She is the author of books: Obecny nieobecny. Krajowa recepcja Czesława Miłosza w krytyce literackiej lat pięćdziesiątych w świetle dokumentów cenzury (Łódź 2012), Klasyk i metafizyka. O twórczości Jarosława Marka Rymkiewicza (Krakow 2002) and several dozen articles devoted to 20th-century and 21st-century poetry, mainly in the context of its relations with neo-classicism and tradition (e.g. regarding Leśmian, J.M. Rymkiewicz, Cz. Miłosz, Z. Herbercie, W. Szymborska and the poetry written after 1990). She co-edited several literary history books, e.g. two studies Twórczość Zbigniewa Herberta (Krakow 2001) and Dlaczego Herbert. Wiersze, komentarze, interpretacje (WUŁ, Łódź 2004) and the collection „Lancetem, a nie maczugą”. Cenzura wobec literatury i jej twórców w latach 1945–1965 (IBL, Warsaw 2012). She is the head of the Commission of Genetic and Documentary Research in Literature at the Łódź Branch of the PAS.

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