The present text follows the extraordinary “double portrait” of Bruno and Caravaggio – rebels in science and art, who are being „painted” by the Polish emmigrant writer in his works. They live together in his thoughts ...

The paper attempts at comparing three editions of Jerzy Ficowski’s book: “Cyganie polscy” and “Cyganie na Polskich drogach” (published in 1965 and 1985). The main focus of the analysis is differences in the content of ...

The article is an attempt at interpreting selected poems by Ficowski (*** [nie zdołałem ocalić…], List do Marc Chagalla, Postscriptum listu do Marc Chagalla, Pożydowskie and Wniebowzięcie Miriam z ulicy zimą 1942, included ...

This paper reads Jerzy Ficowski’s Makowskie bajki, a poetry volume/series written under the influence of chosen Tadeusz Makowski’s paintings, as a separate work situated somewhere in the ‘borderland’ of children and adult ...

Conferences, differing in nature and concept, of national and international scope organized in the jubilee year 1984 greatly contributed to the existing knowledge on the poet. The year brought about a long-awaited boom ...

The article describes the phenomenon of “revoking” or transcending boundaries, present both in the family tradition and biography of Jerzy Ficowski and in his artistic choices. The biographical reflection focuses especially ...

The starting point for my article was Jerzy Ficowski’s poem Do autora “Ptaków ziem polskich”. The poem, found in the poet’s penultimate volume – Zawczas z poniewczasem (2004) is commemorating Jan Sokołowski (1899–1982). ...

Peter Alipiev is a fine example of the poetic emblems of the 1960s. Man and nature translate and express themselves. The poetic world of P. Alipiev is unified, round, fundamental. The four seasons, each of them magical, ...

The work of Jerzy Ficowski, the author of Odczytanie popiołów, Ptak poza ptakiem, Amulety i definicje, raises the problem of postmemory and re-tale. This is self-contained intimate poetry that witnessed historic and ...