Quote taken from the fresh Fierce body description, which was published in 1970 by the Silesian Publishing House, let's start the ballad about its author, Roman Tomczyk (1909-1979), boy of the chief from the village of Maszyce close Kraków.
Carlos Marrodan Casas, a translator of Ibero-American literature into Polish, has repeatedly expressed his amazement that a author of specified a format is inactive on the margin, and even people who consider themselves to be experts and tasters of the word written in most cases have not heard of it at all, and if so, they indifferently shrug their arms by proceeding his name.
Rated by ‘foreign’
No wonder. It is frequently the case that individual “foreign” better senses the originality of the creator than his fellow countrymen, especially erstwhile he speaks the author's language above average and loves the culture of the country he came to erstwhile he was only 3 years old, and this was the case in the case of the said translator, who mentions Tomczyk with 1 breath alongside specified masters as Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortazar and Mario Vargas Llosa. So it is worth considering what he could have fascinated the Spaniard and why he was driven distant by Polish salons, alleged chimneys, through which he flies towards the reading sky.
Not only did Carlos Marrodan Casas draw attention to Tomczyk's pearls. In 1986, a German translator and popularizer of Polish literature born in Bydgoszcz The Secretary-General (1921-1999) posted his communicative Lisops in harvest Die Federn des weissen Adler (White eagle feathers) containing the best stories written in PRL. And that's it.
Life communicative as a movie Screenplay
So far, Tomczyk’s work has not been revived. And that's besides bad, due to the fact that in addition to surviving language with a natural folk color, his novels and short forms are a large treasurer of the impure past of our country. Besides, the author's life itself could become the basis for a movie script.
Tomczyk wanted to become a doctor and studied medicine for 3 years at the University of Warsaw. During this period, he collaborated with the weekly “Simple from the Bridge”, about which the modern mainstream He's not saying anything positive. University education interrupted the outbreak of planet War II. In 1940 the future author miraculously slips out of the Gestapo ambush and joins the Boys' Battalions.
History – a fresh passion
The end of the war is the beginning of fresh troubles. Roman Tomczyk is arrested as an enemy of the fresh order, but is fortunate – it turns out that the man he hid during the war is an officer of the safety Office, 1 can guess what origin, and with his warrant he walks free.
Tomczyk is not going to proceed his medical studies. A fresh passion is the communicative that ends with honour at the University of Wrocław to become a teacher. In this role, however, he is rapidly in trouble. The superiors learn that the lessons show facts that are not included in the textbooks. Although the Stalinism era is slow coming to an end, it must say goodbye to the school, with the ban on past teaching. In a symbolic year, the 1956 thaws begin to work with the “Common Week”, which in a sense will be a protective umbrella for him until his death. Problems with censorship, though he never criticized the fresh strategy directly, will accompany him for the remainder of his life. Still, we managed to smuggle in something.
Humor and Sanction Criticism
In a fresh What's it come to? (1977, Literary Publishing House) colorically and cheerfully painted the characters of Russian invaders. "Wasili Fiodorovich Akifiniev kept the solds short, rare, but thoroughly, he washed the morsel, but outside of the service he drank vodka with them, played a ball, a salonist and a cannon, otherwise peas, due to the fact that the game took place erstwhile there was peas for dinner. The game was that pea beans were poured into the bowl, and the players were trying to blow as many beans as possible with a loud fart. This was accompanied by laughter and encouragement for effective bloating. – Pajdi barin is us in the mountains of gorochom igrat – they invited with mockery Mr Morzkowski passing through there. – They have given it up – the praporzeszczyk laughed. – Lord of the gentle, in the smocks of emptiness”.
In the same novel, the First Brigade and the Orders established in independent Poland were besides hit by blessings Józef Piłsudski: “Sometimes bravely, with Grandpa they went to conquer Kielce. And then with prosperity, they tasted in the trough.”.
Interwar Memoirs
For singing specified songs, you could get beautiful good in the neck after the May flip. And I'm certain it was before. Shocking promotions to the higher positions of combatants without qualifications and education Tomczyk explains kindly, with a certain amount of ridicule, that it would be foolish if the independency fighter had to live off the wage of a modest official. How do we know that?
The second period of the Republic occupies quite a few space in Tomczyk's work. These are the years of the author's youth, the first love, the effort to adapt the state in the large cities, political maturation. In general, the times erstwhile wings grow and you want to fly without an assist.
Politically RP II
If in feature visions to look for the evidence of the real world, then Poland of the inter-war period was highly political. It was all buzzing. In university cabinets, and most likely in another colleges, it was hard to find a fewer centimeters to hang an announcement about the date of the upcoming rally, meeting, or demonstration. Breaking or covering the competition card was a threat of immediate conflict. It would take besides much space to name all youth organisations. And it's safe to say that it was fun, especially on independency Day, erstwhile all the menageries were gathering on the streets.
In a fresh Fierce body description reads: "November is simply a dangerous time for Poles. It is simply a period of thick lags, police sticks, watering students from fire-fighting motoomp, fights, throwing down stairs, hanging lectures and closing any to the jail”.
COP Civilization
But Roman Tomczyk, although he spent many years studying first in Warsaw and then in Wrocław, was primarily a master in drawing images from the life of the province. In his first fresh of 1962 The road is bumpy described the changes in civilization and customs that took place at the initiative of the Minister Eugeniusz Kwiatkowski (1888-1974), which resulted in the largest economical investment in the period II of Poland, thanks to which the backward part, originally located forks of Sanu and Vistula, and later covering as many as 44 counties, was to get out of misery. Talk about COP or Central Industrial District.
He wrote: "Until abruptly something changed in the country. First, Jews from the town of the trusted said that who knows if there will be a movement here with the business they call Copem, then the organist who had a boy in Warsaw himself, was the same. But no 1 knew. In the area where the proverbial match was divided into four, for 1 minute it was the main topic. Mysterious news was being listened to with baking on my face, as if aliens were coming. Fear mixed with curiosity. possibly it's actual what people say, possibly it's not true. The parent of God Adam, called Echo, came erstwhile from the village where the commune was, and whoever wanted to perceive to it or not, spoke rapidly and incomprehensiblely. – Ino watch as they start putting the olmary on 4 floors or even more, with 3 chimneys like a church tower. The square has already fenced, but to do anything there that they do not accept, only the strong ones.”.
Change the eyes of the unit
Roman Tomczyk in the fresh The road is bumpy Of course, it does not focus on the biggest COP projects, but looks at the destiny of the selected individuals and looks at the changes in their eyes.
“However, Friday returned not to the old place, but to the trailing brick mill, besides on the furnace... Almost the women themselves worked here, that there were 30 of them, and apart from them only a fewer peasants, a foreman, a drumper, and a driver. A chord stake from a 1000 – sometimes and of twenty-five 1000 bricks pulled out. little earnings than on the oven but lighter work, Sunday free” – he wrote. Service facilities began to grow next to the factories. It's catering first. A Red Head Button opened a pint of beer, wine and honey. "Elegant as in the city, with tables, mirrors like doors and paintings on walls. The buffet was ruled by Button, and the table was served by a painted lady. Only a fewer days ago, Button brought her back from town, and they were already talking about her. Cecilia was her name, but the parboons called her Cycilia. She later lamented that they were rude, not the customers she had at a decent first-class railway restaurant.”. So much in a nutshell about the II of Poland according to Roman Tomczyk.
The Human Face of Antiheroes
And on September 1, 1939, the door slams behind the youth of the future writer. In later creation the German business returns most powerfully in Little superhumans (Silesian Publishing, 1967), an excellent position that would most likely be qualified as a fresh today, and at the time of the release was considered a collection of loosely related stories leading to 1 end.
Little superhuman It is simply a planet of Nazi business from the position of volksdojcz, grenade police, trizub, smugglers and different combinationists. Tomczyk's craft consists in a description of attitudes on deficiency of evaluation. The author leaves an assessment to the reader. As a champion. The main character of this communicative can be considered to be the commandant of the navy police, Kazimierz Nowak, who grows up to be the top anti-hero in the past of Polish literature. Consider any of his responsibilities.
Chief Nowak
"The police had quite a few work to do: to defend the cattle's drive, on which the arts were taken for slaughter, to collect horses for military purposes, to set aside quotas, people for the Reich, to earring pigs. All of these actions had to be covered due to the fact that there were robberies and ransacking of barters, earrings and commissions. However, this had a pleasant side: each of the police officers returned richer than he left, and besides after finishing office there was a good party. The chief liked specified things: he was honored and watered, felt the most crucial person, and if he was satisfied, he turned a blind eye to various shortcomings and mating. But erstwhile things were not right, he got angry and ended up bad for the full village. The Golden Apple was besides a collection to 18-year-olds to Baudienst (Building Service). No 1 wanted to go for a full year or more to slave labour from 6 am to 6 pm, walk in woodwork and rags, eat cobblers and take beatings. The Commission slowed down if there were no hands on the holding or in the event of full physical incapacity. Both could be obtained for 10 1000 zlotys. So if 200 people were released in the municipality, the commission entered by a typical of Baudienst, a felcher or an orderly from that service, the chief of police and the mayor made 2 million, and for 10 municipalities 20 million, 4 or 5 million per head. What did the monthly wage of PLN 300 mean?" - We read.
This part of Chief Nowak's work could even be considered useful. However, he was shot for sowing panic in the subject's word: robberies, murders, massacres, and punishments for no reason whatsoever. He was buried with honors as deserved to the 3rd Reich.
Tasty for reflection
In Roman Tomczyk's novels and short stories as a page of all the treats. At the end of 1 of them, caught from Little Overpeople: “In the thirty-nine years before the outbreak of the war, the order to surrender short and hunting weapons and deposit them on police stations was known to have been issued.”.
To reflect.
Adam Rosłoniec
