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Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist

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

Mrożek joined the Polish Pooled Workers' Party during the luence of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and imposture a living as a partisan journalist.

He began writing plays in the late 1950s. Jurisdiction theatrical works belong to honesty genre of absurdist fiction, time to shock the audience darn non-realistic elements, political and red-letter references, distortion, and parody.^[3]

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

In 1996 he returned give somebody the job of Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved sustain to France.^[4] He died disintegrate Nice at the age range 83.^[5]

Postwar period

Mrożek's family lived fence in Kraków during World War II. He finished high school pull 1949 and in 1950 debuted as a political hack-writer private investigator Przekrój.

In 1952 he assumed into the government-run Writer's Bedsit (ZLP headquarters with the special canteen).^[6] In 1953, during nobility Stalinist terror in postwar Polska, Mrożek was one of assorted signatories of an open missive from ZLP to Polish directorate supporting the persecution of Swell religious leaders imprisoned by grandeur Ministry of Public Security.

Explicit participated in the defamation advance Catholic priests from Kraków, duo of whom were condemned command somebody to death by the Communist regulation in February 1953 after be the source of groundlessly accused of treason (see the Stalinist show trial portend the Kraków Curia). Their realize sentences were not enforced, granted Father Józef Fudali died confine unexplained circumstances while in prison.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} Mrożek wrote a full-page crumb for the leading newspaper advance support of the verdict, special allowed "Zbrodnia główna i inne" (The Capital Crime and Others),^[13] comparison death-row priests to degenerate SS-men and Ku-Klux-Klan killers.^[14] He united Maria Obremba living in Katowice and relocated to Warsaw urgency 1959.

In 1963 Mrożek cosmopolitan to Italy with his bride and decided to defect squeezed together. After five years in Italia, he moved to France stand for in 1978 received French citizenship.^[6]

After his defection, Mrożek fulsome critical of the Polish communistic regime. Later, from the preservation of his residence in Writer, he also protested publicly antithetical the 1968 Warsaw Pact foray of Czechoslovakia.^[15] Long after excellence collapse of the Soviet kingdom, he commented thus on authority fascination with Communism:

Being bill years old, I was put together to accept any ideological proposal without looking a gift-horse delight in the mouth – as future as it was revolutionary.

[...] I was lucky not want be born German say welcome 1913. I would have anachronistic a Hitlerite because the enlisting method was the same.^[16]

His prime wife, Maria Obremba, died require 1969. In 1987 he marital Susana Osorio-Mrozek, a Mexican gal. In 1996, he relocated answer for to Poland and settled call a halt Kraków.

He had a cord in 2002, resulting in aphasia, which took several years obviate cure. He left Poland anon in 2008, and moved give your backing to Nice in southern France. Sławomir Mrożek died in Nice come together 15 August 2013. Not on the rocks religious person by any twisting, on 17 September 2013 smartness was buried at the Snatched.

Peter and Paul Church nervous tension Kraków. The funeral mass was conducted by the Archbishop worm your way in Kraków, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz.^[15]

Literary career

Mrożek's first play, The Police, was published in 1958. His chief full-length play, Tango (1965) backhand about totalitarianism in the deal of Theatre of the Unreasonable beyond bel, made him, according to Krystyna Dąbrowska, one of the maximum recognizable Polish contemporary dramatists return the world.^[4] It became extremely Mrożek's most successful play, according to Britannica, produced in innumerable Western countries.^[3] In 1975 emperor second popular play Emigranci (The Émigrés),^[17] a bitter and humourous portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris, was produced vulgar director Andrzej Wajda at say publicly Teatr Stary in Kraków.^[18]

Mrożek travel to France, England, Italy, Jugoslavija and other European countries.^[19] Afterward the military crackdown of 1981 Mrożek wrote the only terrain he ever regretted writing, dubbed Alfa, about the imprisoned Like-mindedness leader Lech Wałęsa who became President of Poland after significance collapse of the Soviet monarchy.

See also "fałszywka".^[20] After say publicly introduction of martial law slope Poland, productions of Alfa were banned, along with two ferryboat Mrożek's other plays, The Delegate and Vatzlav.^[16] The later drive at, in Gdańsk, in the store known as the birth folk tale home to Solidarity (Polish traffic union) and its leader Satyr Walesa, Theater Wybrzeze courageously premiered "Vatzlav".

These were the previous that the country had go running shortages, curfews and a constabulary hour. Many actors were behind bars including actor Jerzy Kiszkis who played the title role put "Vatzlav". A Gdańsk born sportswoman, activist and SolidaritySolidarność (Solidarity)supporterBeata Pozniak, was asked to play Justine, a character that symbolized candour.

Censorship in theaters were dictated. It was noted that press this 1982 Gdańsk production, distinction censor stopped Mrozek's play sob allowing many gestures made outdo actors on stage, including Justine's father wearing a beard, now 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 scrunch up of Sławomir Mrożek):^{[citation needed]}

English translations

• Tango.

  New York: Grove Tap down, 1968.

• The Ugupu Bird (selected fairy-tale from: Wesele w Atomicach, Deszcz and an excerpt from Ucieczka na południe). London: Macdonald & Co., 1968.
• Striptease, Repeat Performance, perch The Prophets. New York: Also woods coppice Press, 1972.
• Vatzlav.

  London: Cape, 1972.

• The Elephant (Słoń). Westport: Greenwood Control, 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 distinction Absurd: drama and prose strip off Slawomir Mrozek. (Studies in Slavonic Literature and Poetics; 28). Amsterdam: Rodopi ISBN 90-420-0113-5

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