Błoński on Swinarski. From Liberation to release

Jan Błoński had the opportunity to co-operate with Konrad Swinarski by working as a literary director of the Old Theatre in the 1960s and 70s. He repeatedly expressed his fascination with the artist, but he did not dedicate him any separate text. However, he spoke about it many times, both in interviews and in various commemorative texts. The author of the text analyses the various strategies of these statements: first of all love discourse within which Swinarski-artist in the process of creating functions as an object of fascination described in hot emotional tone. He shows how emotions allow Błoński avoid or even obscure the political theatre of Swinarski. He also puts the thesis that the reading of Błoński’s comments being full of doubt, misleading clues and vivid emotions allow you to re-start a discussion about Konrad Swinarski’s theatre.

 

Jan Błoński had the opportunity to co-operate with Konrad Swinarski by working as a literary director of the Old Theatre in the 1960s and 70s. He repeatedly expressed his fascination with the artist, but he did not dedicate him any separate text. However, he spoke about it many times, both in interviews and in various commemorative texts. The author of the text analyses the various strategies of these statements: first of all love discourse within which Swinarski-artist in the process of creating functions as an object of fascination described in hot emotional tone. He shows how emotions allow Błoński avoid or even obscure the political theatre of Swinarski. He also puts the thesis that the reading of Błoński’s comments being full of doubt, misleading clues and vivid emotions allow you to re-start a discussion about Konrad Swinarski’s theatre.