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Although the Second World War
and its moral as well as physical aftermath have been a major
preoccupation in Polish literature of the last fifty years, two poets
immediately come to mind as representatives of this theme.
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Tadeusz
Różewicz (b. 1921), freedom fighter during the war, expresses
the shock not only at the war but also at the fact that the world did
not end in this apogee of brutality. Rózewicz is then a spokesman for
a whole "death-contaminated generation:" his scathing irony
is an endorsement of existentialism. In the words of Czeslaw Milosz,
"Rozewicz is a poet of chaos with a nostalgia for order."
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Jerzy
Ficowski (b. 1924). member of the Polish resistance, sociologist
and philosopher, is often seen as a champion of Poland's past and
present minorities, with his keen interest and inspirations in the
Jewish, Romany, and Lemko folklores. Mourner for those nations'
respective Holocausts, he is also famous for the discovery of Papusza,
the first Romany poet to ever put her verse to print.
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