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Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Born

in Warszawa, Poland

July 13, 1935

Died

February 03, 2022

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (born as Jarosław Marek Szulc was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.

As a poet, he was influenced by the traditions of classicism and the baroque. He has received multiple prizes for his novels, essays, and translations, including the Kościelski Prize (1967), S. Vincenz Prize (1985), and Polish PEN Club Prize. His volume of poetry Zachód słońca w Milanówku won the prestigious Nike Award in 2003.

Although Rymkiewicz was primarily a poet, he is better known as the author of two influential novels that contributed to the two most important debates of the 1980s: that involving martial law (1981) and Polish-Jewish relations. His novel Rozmowy polskie latem, 1983 (Polish Conversations in Summer 1983) d Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz (born as Jarosław Marek Szulc was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and literary critic.

As a poet, he was influenced by the traditions of classicism and the baroque. He has received multiple prizes for his novels, essays, and translations, including the Kościelski Prize (1967), S. Vincenz Prize (1985), and Polish PEN Club Prize. His volume of poetry Zachód słońca w Milanówku won the prestigious Nike Award in 2003.

Although Rymkiewicz was primarily a poet, he is better known as the author of two influential novels that contributed to the two most important debates of the 1980s: that involving martial law (1981) and Polish-Jewish relations. His novel Rozmowy polskie latem, 1983 (Polish Conversations in Summer 1983) discusses the meaning of being Polish and the preoccupation with achieving independence. Rymkiewicz’s second novel, entitled Umschlagplatz (1988), had a greater impact. Instytut Literacki, the largest Polish émigré publishing house, originally published the novel in Paris in 1988 as it could not appear in communist Poland. It was reprinted a few times by underground publishing houses in Poland but officially appeared only in 1992 after the communists lost power in 1989. It was translated into French (1989), German (1993), and English (1994).

The novel focuses on the symbolic meaning of Umschlagplatz, which denotes a small square in German-occupied Warsaw (1939–1945) from which the Germans sent more than 300,000 Jews to their deaths, and thus a place which "may well be the only place of its kind" in the world. (p. 7,Umschlagplatz). He attempts to understand the implication of the existence of such a place for the contemporary Warsaw and the contemporary Poles. It took Rymkiewicz two years of study and research to create a detailed plan of the square. He concluded that Germans introduced the name Umschlagplatz sometime before July 1942; in pre-war Poland the place was called Transfer Square and was the center for the Jewish wholesale trade.

As an essayist, Rymkiewicz concentrated on Polish history (the partition period, World War II). ...more

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	Zachód słońca w Milanówku 3.49 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kinderszenen 3.36 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wieszanie 3.49 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Juliusz Słowacki pyta o godzinę 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rozmowy polskie latem roku 1983 3.82 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samuel Zborowski 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Final Station: Umschlagplatz by Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Nina Taylor (Translator) 3.36 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Żmut 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reytan. Upadek Polski 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wielki Książe: Z Dodaniem Rozważań O Istocie I Przymiotach Ducha Polskiego really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Polska ochrzczona wtedy tym wieszaniem, Polska ochrzczona pod kamienicą Wasilewskiego na Krakowskim Przedmieściu jeszcze i dziś byłaby jakąś całkiem inną Polską – nie bardzo potrafię ją sobie wyobrazić, ale z pewnością byłaby to Polska radykalna, na wieki zradykalizowana.”
― Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Wieszanie

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“[...] celem tej książki nie jest oskarżanie, potępianie oraz wzbudzanie moralnego oburzenia. Książka ta [...] nie zajmuje się moralnością, lecz życiem.”
― Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Wieszanie

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“[...] w takich ekstatycznych pieśniach, pieśniach ekstazy, w takim biciu w bęben i towarzyszących temu wrzaskach, słychać właśnie to, co nierozumne i niezrozumiałe – głos życia wydobywający się z jego najgłębszej głębi, głos tej potworności, która ukrywa się w głębi życia; głos tej obcości, głos tego obcego, które tam gdzieś jest; tej potworności, z której życie poczyna się, która jest u jego początków i która jest
– życiem.”
― Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz, Wieszanie

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