Parnicki, Teodor

Parnicki, Teodor

▪ Polish author
born March 5, 1908, Berlin, Ger.
died Dec. 5, 1988, Warsaw, Pol.

      Polish historical novelist who modernized the genre through his interest in psychoanalysis and his use of innovative narrative techniques.

      Parnicki was the son of a civil engineer, and he lived in Russia until 1917, then in Manchuria, and settled in 1928 in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine), his father's birthplace. After the Russian occupation of eastern Poland, he was deported to the Soviet Union but managed to obtain a post in the Polish embassy at Kuybyshev (now Samara) between 1941 and 1943. Later he lived in Jerusalem, London, and Mexico, finally returning to Poland in the 1960s.

      Parnicki won recognition as a writer with Aecjusz, ostatni Rzymianin (1937; “Aetius, the Last Roman”), a depiction of the attack by the Huns on a declining Rome in the 5th century AD. Srebrne orıy (1945; “Silver Eagles”) recounts the story of Poland's emergence as an independent state in the 10th and 11th centuries. In Tylko Beatrycze (1962; “Only Beatrice”) the author describes the burning of a Cistercian monastery in Poland in 1309. Parnicki also wrote historical novels dealing with Byzantium and ancient Alexandria. With the publication of Muza dalekich podrózy (1970; “The Muse of Distant Journeys”), Parnicki's work became more imaginative and reflective. A number of his critical works—Staliśmy jak dwa sny (1973; “Like Two Dreams”), Szkice literackie (1978; “Literary Essays”), and Historia w literaturę (1980; “Making History into Literature”)—address, among other things, objectivity, creativity, and the nature of the writing of history.

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