Konwicki, Tadeusz

Konwicki, Tadeusz

▪ Polish author
born June 22, 1926, Nowa Wilejka, Pol. [now Naujoji Vilnia, Lith.]

      Polish writer, screenwriter, and film director known for his bitter novels about the devastations of war and ideology.

      A teenager during World War II, Konwicki joined the Polish resistance movement, fighting first the occupying Nazi army and then the Soviets. When his native province was awarded to Lithuania after the war, he and many other ethnic Poles were “repatriated” to Poland.

      Konwicki was educated at the Universities of Cracow and Warsaw and began writing for newspapers and periodicals. He served on the editorial boards of leading literary magazines and followed the official Communist Party line. His first work, Przy budowie (1950; “At the Construction Site”), won the State Prize for Literature. He began a career as a filmmaker and scriptwriter in 1956; his film Ostatni dzień lata (“The Last Day of Summer”) won the Venice Film Festival Grand Prix in 1958. By the late 1960s he had quit the Communist Party, lost his job in the official film industry, and become active in the opposition movement.

      Konwicki's work is suffused with guilt and anxiety, coloured by his wartime experiences and a sense of helplessness in confronting a corrupt and repressive society. Chief among his novels are Rojsty (1956; “The Marshes”) and Sennik wspóczesny (1963; A Dreambook for Our Time), a book that writer and critic Czesław Miłosz called “one of the most terrifying novels of postwar Polish literature.” His other works of this period are Wniebowstpienie (1967; “Ascension”) and Zwierzoczłekoupiór (1969; The Anthropos-Spectre-Beast). His later books—including Kompleks polski (1977; The Polish Complex), the bitterly mocking Mała apokalipsa (1979; A Minor Apocalypse), and the lyrical Bohiń (1987; Bohin Manor)—confront Poland's social cataclysms of the late 1970s and the '80s. The autobiographical Wschody i zachody ksiżyca (1981; Moonrise, Moonset) recounts some of Konwicki's experiences during the period of martial law in Poland.

* * *


Universalium. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Konwicki, Tadeusz — (1926 )    Prominent writer, scriptwriter, and director, Tadeusz Konwicki was instrumental during the Polish School period as both filmmaker and the literary director of the film unit Kadr (1956 1968). Although Konwicki started his writing career …   Guide to cinema

  • Tadeusz Konwicki — en el 2005 Tadeusz Konwicki (n. 22 de junio de 1926) es un escritor y director de cine polaco, miembro del Consejo del Idioma Polaco. Contenido 1 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Konwicki — Tadeusz Konwicki, Warschau (Polen), 18. Mai 2005 Tadeusz Konwicki (* 22. Juni 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, heute Litauen), ist ein polnischer Schriftsteller und Filmregisseur. Er ging in Wilno zur Schule und kämpfte in den Jahren 1944/1945 als Partisan… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Tadeusz Konwicki — Tadeusz Konwicki, Varsovie (Pologne), 18.05.2005 Ta …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Tadeusz Konwicki — Tadeusz Konwicki, Warschau (Polen), 18. Mai 2005 Tadeusz Konwicki (* 22. Juni 1926 in Nowa Wilejka, heute Litauen), ist ein polnischer Schriftsteller und Filmregisseur. Er ging in Wilno zur Schule und kämpfte in den Jahren 1944/1945 als Partisan… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Tadeusz Konwicki — (born June 22, 1926) is a Polish writer and film director, a member of the Polish Language Council.LifeKonwicki was born in 1926 in Nowa Wilejka near Vilnius, where he spent his early childhood. He spent his adolescence in Vilnius, attending a… …   Wikipedia

  • Tadeusz — is a name from latin languge. It means brave and courageous Tadeusz can refer to:* Tadeusz Bór Komorowski, Polish military leader * Tadeusz Boy Żeleński, Polish gynaecologist, writer, poet, art critic, translator of French literary classics and… …   Wikipedia

  • Konwicki —   [ vitski], Tadeusz, polnischer Schriftsteller und Filmregisseur, * Nowa Wilejka (heute zu Vilnius) 22. 6. 1926; behandelt in seiner Prosa die Kindheit in Litauen und v. a. Probleme der Nachkriegsgeneration, wobei er eine Welt zwischen Traum und …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Studio Filmowe Kadr — Das Filmstudio Kadr (poln. Studio Filmowe Kadr) gehört zu den wichtigsten Filmproduktionsfirmen in Polen. Es entstand bereits 1955 im sozialistischen Polen. Nach den Märzunruhen 1968 wurde das Studio aufgelöst und 1972 neu gegründet. Das… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Polish literature — Introduction       body of writings in Polish, one of the Slavic languages. The Polish national literature holds an exceptional position in Poland. Over the centuries it has mirrored the turbulent events of Polish history and at times sustained… …   Universalium

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”