Podróże Kazimierza Brandysa, czyli tam, gdzie rodzą się tematy

Abstract

During his whole life, Brandys made many trips abroad. It was only in 1980, during one of his trips to the USA, that he decided not to come back to Poland. The reason of such a decision was obviously the complicated political situation at that time. However, before that happened, as a citizen of the People’s Poland, he travelled during post war years until the end of eighties to: France, Italy, the Balkan countries, the United States, etc. He contained his impressions and memories of those trips in three parts of his series entitled Memories of the Present. The series is composed of Letters to Madam Z., Joker, and Market. The travel motifs, however, play an ancillary role in them. Journeys there were treated as a pretext of seeking topics for deliberation. The writer travels in his notes from war memories to psychological or sociological problems of the contemporary Western societies.