Tadeusz Różewicz Passes Away

Hello Gentle Reader

Poland, a small Eastern European country, which has a had difficult and tumultuous past; is now a fiercely proud and independent country, has lost (again) one of its greatest practitioners of literature. Tadeusz Różewicz aged ninety-two years old, passed away on April 24th of twenty fourteen. Over a month ago; and to you, my Gentle Reader, I am sorry not to have reported this sooner. – To continue nonetheless: Różewicz is one of the greatest writers, to have written about the, twentieth century’s difficult reality in both its historical content and its effects still reverberating in the present. However one of the most recognizable, traits of Różewicz work is his deeply felt human sympathy. Różewicz is the kind of writer, who was disappointed with the ever changing world, to quick to forget, the twentieth century as nothing more than forgotten bad dream; comparing the fall of the Berlin Wall, and its cries of hope and progress, as being disillusioned and his generation just petering out to be forgotten for their tenacious survival through brutality, after inhumanity; and through all forms of indignity. Różewicz will most likely not be forgotten. His poetry and his plays are well performed, and read. He is one of the great torch bearers of both historical witness and Polish literature; along with fellow writers and poets Wisława Szymborska, Czeslaw Milosz, and Adam Zagajewski. Tadeusz Różewicz is the kind of poet and writer, who writes with profound creativity and inventive language. Poetry in his hands, escaped the grasp of political ideologies, and a stifling concept of ‘party approved literature,’ and bore witness to humanity in suffering; but its unwavering dignity to fight adversity in the face of being alone. He is one of those truly great writes, who have experienced, witnessed, and then turned it into literature, and make that empathetic connection with the reader. It is one of those great shames Różewicz never won the Nobel along with compatriots Szymborska and Milosz; but a writer of such immense talent, and understanding of mankind’s continuous struggle and success; its guilty conscious and its redemptive nature; does not need a award, to cement his name in the great tapestry of international literature.

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[ I again apologise Gentle Reader, for the delay of this post, in reporting this passing earlier; but most of all I apologize to the memory of Tadeusz Różewicz; in which case my respects should have been paid sooner. ]