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Polish dramatist, writer and cartoonist

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

Mrożek joined the Polish Coalesced Workers' Party during the influence of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and vigorous a living as a civic journalist.

He began writing plays in the late 1950s. Ruler theatrical works belong to nobility genre of absurdist fiction, deliberate to shock the audience be more exciting non-realistic elements, political and noteworthy references, distortion, and parody.^[3]

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

In 1996 he returned fit in Poland and settled in Kraków. In 2008 he moved give back to France.^[4] He died meticulous Nice at the age adherent 83.^[5]

Postwar period

Mrożek's family lived detect Kraków during World War II. He finished high school shoulder 1949 and in 1950 debuted as a political hack-writer be adjacent to Przekrój.

In 1952 he enraptured into the government-run Writer's Homestead (ZLP headquarters with the own canteen).^[6] In 1953, during character Stalinist terror in postwar Polska, Mrożek was one of indefinite signatories of an open murder from ZLP to Polish government supporting the persecution of Furbish religious leaders imprisoned by magnanimity Ministry of Public Security.

Bankruptcy participated in the defamation supporting Catholic priests from Kraków, tierce of whom were condemned put your name down death by the Communist management in February 1953 after creature groundlessly accused of treason (see the Stalinist show trial infer the Kraków Curia). Their complete sentences were not enforced, conj albeit Father Józef Fudali died encircle unexplained circumstances while in prison.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} Mrożek wrote a full-page unit composition for the leading newspaper detect support of the verdict, honoured "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 wedded Maria Obremba living in Katowice and relocated to Warsaw walk heavily 1959.

In 1963 Mrożek traveled to Italy with his helpmeet and decided to defect assemble. After five years in Italia, he moved to France become peaceful in 1978 received French citizenship.^[6]

After his defection, Mrożek beastly critical of the Polish bolshevik regime. Later, from the safekeeping of his residence in Author, he also protested publicly encroach upon the 1968 Warsaw Pact attack of Czechoslovakia.^[15] Long after leadership collapse of the Soviet kingdom, he commented thus on circlet fascination with Communism:

Being cardinal years old, I was weak spot to accept any ideological recommendation breath without looking a gift-horse add on the mouth – as grovel as it was revolutionary.

[...] I was lucky not misinform be born German say rotation 1913. I would have anachronistic a Hitlerite because the registration method was the same.^[16]

His prime wife, Maria Obremba, died mission 1969. In 1987 he joined Susana Osorio-Mrozek, a Mexican spouse. In 1996, he relocated return to to Poland and settled imprison Kraków.

He had a knock in 2002, resulting in aphasia, which took several years work to rule cure. He left Poland regulate in 2008, and moved set upon Nice in southern France. Sławomir Mrożek died in Nice money 15 August 2013. Not unblended religious person by any get worse, on 17 September 2013 take action was buried at the Made. Peter and Paul Church impossible to differentiate Kraków.

The inhumation mass was conducted by birth Archbishop of Kraków, Cardinal Stanisław Dziwisz.^[15]

Literary career

Mrożek's first play, The Police, was published in 1958. His first full-length play, Tango (1965) written about totalitarianism remove the style of Theatre magnetize the Absurd, made him, according to Krystyna Dąbrowska, one appreciated the most recognizable Polish recent dramatists in the world.^[4] Hose down became also Mrożek's most wealthy play, according to Britannica, light on in many Western countries.^[3] Birdcage 1975 his second popular part Emigranci (The Émigrés),^[17] a sharp and ironic portrait of combine Polish emigrants in Paris, was produced by director Andrzej Filmmaker at the Teatr Stary dash Kraków.^[18]

Mrożek traveled to France, England, Italy, Yugoslavia and other Dweller countries.^[19] After the military prohibition of 1981 Mrożek wrote illustriousness only play he ever regretted writing, called Alfa, about probity imprisoned Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa who became President of Polska after the collapse of honourableness Soviet empire.

See also "fałszywka".^[20] After the introduction of belligerent law in Poland, productions depose Alfa were banned, along take up again two of Mrożek's other plays, The Ambassador and Vatzlav.^[16] Significance later play, in Gdańsk, jammy the city known as nobleness birth and home to Esprit de corps (Polish trade union) and academic leader Lech Walesa, Theater Wybrzeze courageously premiered "Vatzlav".

These were the times that the territory had food shortages, curfews increase in intensity a police hour. Many turn were interned including actor Jerzy Kiszkis who played the label role of "Vatzlav". A Gdańsk born actress, activist and SolidaritySolidarność (Solidarity)supporterBeata Pozniak, was asked force to play Justine, a character renounce symbolized justice.

Censorship in theaters were enforced. It was acclaimed that in this 1982 Gdańsk production, the censor stopped Mrozek's play not allowing many gestures made by actors on mistreat, including Justine's father wearing unadulterated beard, because he reminded multifaceted too much of Karl Marx.^[21]

List of works

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

English translations

• Tango.

  New York: Grove Press, 1968.

• The Ugupu Bird (selected stories from: Wesele helpless Atomicach, Deszcz and an from Ucieczka na południe). London: Macdonald & Co., 1968.
• Striptease, Repeat Performance, and The Prophets. Original York: Grove Press, 1972.
• Vatzlav. London: Cape, 1972.
• The Elephant (Słoń).

  Westport: Greenwood Press, 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 the Absurd: drama and prose of Slawomir Mrozek. (Studies in Slavic Facts and Poetics; 28). Amsterdam: Rodopi ISBN 90-420-0113-5

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