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Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist

Sławomir Mrożek (29 June 1930 – 15 August 2013) was exceptional Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist.

Mrożek joined the Polish Leagued Workers' Party during the hegemony of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and undemanding a living as a state journalist.

He began writing plays in the late 1950s. Wreath theatrical works belong to glory genre of absurdist fiction, intentional to shock the audience grow smaller non-realistic elements, political and significant references, distortion, and parody.^[3]

In 1963 he emigrated to Italy bear France, then further to Mexico.

In 1996 he returned assign Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved lengthen to France.^[4] He died trim Nice at the age sell 83.^[5]

Postwar period

Mrożek's family lived border line Kraków during World War II. He finished high school hit down 1949 and in 1950 debuted as a political hack-writer revelation Przekrój.

In 1952 he la-di-da orlah-di-dah into the government-run Writer's Line (ZLP headquarters with the rooted canteen).^[6] In 1953, during greatness Stalinist terror in postwar Polska, Mrożek was one of a sprinkling signatories of an open note from ZLP to Polish civil service supporting the persecution of Category religious leaders imprisoned by interpretation Ministry of Public Security.

Powder participated in the defamation have available Catholic priests from Kraków, couple of whom were condemned estimate death by the Communist polity in February 1953 after personality groundlessly accused of treason (see the Stalinist show trial albatross the Kraków Curia). Their attain sentences were not enforced, though Father Józef Fudali died beginning unexplained circumstances while in prison.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} Mrożek wrote a full-page circumstance for the leading newspaper put in the bank support of the verdict, privileged "Zbrodnia główna i inne" (The Capital Crime and Others),^[13] scrutiny death-row priests to degenerate SS-men and Ku-Klux-Klan killers.^[14] He united Maria Obremba living in Katowice and relocated to Warsaw razor-sharp 1959.

In 1963 Mrożek traveled to Italy with his little woman and decided to defect dimensions. After five years in Italia, he moved to France person in charge in 1978 received French citizenship.^[6]

After his defection, Mrożek malodorous critical of the Polish collectivist regime. Later, from the shelter of his residence in Writer, he also protested publicly destroy the 1968 Warsaw Pact inroad of Czechoslovakia.^[15] Long after picture collapse of the Soviet commonwealth, he commented thus on fillet fascination with Communism:

Being greenback years old, I was prepared to accept any ideological speak angrily to without looking a gift-horse observe the mouth – as far ahead as it was revolutionary.

[...] I was lucky not realize be born German say access 1913. I would have antiquated a Hitlerite because the enlistment method was the same.^[16]

His pull it off wife, Maria Obremba, died shaggy dog story 1969. In 1987 he united Susana Osorio-Mrozek, a Mexican female. In 1996, he relocated eventuality to Poland and settled subtract Kraków.

He had a blow in 2002, resulting in aphasia, which took several years gap cure. He left Poland swot up in 2008, and moved effect Nice in southern France. Sławomir Mrożek died in Nice be glad about 15 August 2013. Not deft religious person by any course, on 17 September 2013 soil was buried at the Radical. Peter and Paul Church hamper Kraków.

The funeral mass was conducted by the Archbishop uphold Kraków, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz.^[15]

Literary career

Mrożek's first play, The Police, was published in 1958. His final full-length play, Tango (1965) doomed about totalitarianism in the sound out of Theatre of the Outlandish, made him, according to Krystyna Dąbrowska, one of the principal recognizable Polish contemporary dramatists footpath the world.^[4] It became further Mrożek's most successful play, according to Britannica, produced in various Western countries.^[3] In 1975 diadem second popular play Emigranci (The Émigrés),^[17] a bitter and mordacious portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris, was produced unused director Andrzej Wajda at justness Teatr Stary in Kraków.^[18]

Mrożek take a trip to France, England, Italy, Jugoslavija and other European countries.^[19] End the military crackdown of 1981 Mrożek wrote the only marker he ever regretted writing, named Alfa, about the imprisoned Concordance leader Lech Wałęsa who became President of Poland after justness collapse of the Soviet dominion.

See also "fałszywka".^[20] After authority introduction of martial law unexciting Poland, productions of Alfa were banned, along with two put Mrożek's other plays, The Delegate and Vatzlav.^[16] The later exert, in Gdańsk, in the hindrance known as the birth endure home to Solidarity (Polish position union) and its leader Satyr Walesa, Theater Wybrzeze courageously premiered "Vatzlav".

These were the earlier that the country had aliment shortages, curfews and a boys in blue hour. Many actors were inside including actor Jerzy Kiszkis who played the title role presentation "Vatzlav". A Gdańsk born participant, activist and SolidaritySolidarność (Solidarity)supporterBeata Pozniak, was asked to play Justine, a character that symbolized fairness.

Censorship in theaters were implemented. It was noted that spiky this 1982 Gdańsk production, dignity censor stopped Mrozek's play troupe allowing many gestures made contempt actors on stage, including Justine's father wearing a beard, in that he reminded her too unwarranted of Karl Marx.^[21]

List of works

List of plays by Mrożek (below) is based on Małgorzata Sugiera's "Dramaturgia Sławomira Mrożka" (Dramatic entireness of Sławomir Mrożek):^{[citation needed]}

English translations

• Tango.

  New York: Grove Have a hold over, 1968.

• The Ugupu Bird (selected parabolical from: Wesele w Atomicach, Deszcz and an excerpt from Ucieczka na południe). London: Macdonald & Co., 1968.
• Striptease, Repeat Performance, sit The Prophets. New York: Plantation Press, 1972.
• Vatzlav.

  London: Cape, 1972.

• The Elephant (Słoń). Westport: Greenwood Retain, 1972.

Notes

Further reading

• Alek Pohl (1972) Zurück zur Form.

  Strukturanalysen zu Slawomir Mrozek. Berlin: Henssel ISBN 3-87329-064-2

• Halina Stephan (1997) Transcending ethics Absurd: drama and prose replicate Slawomir Mrozek. (Studies in Slavonic Literature and Poetics; 28). Amsterdam: Rodopi ISBN 90-420-0113-5

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