%0 Journal Article
%T What is Różewicz Laughing about?
%A Michałowski, Piotr
%J Wielogłos
%V 2022
%R 10.4467/2084395XWI.22.002.15875
%N Issue 2 (52) 2022: Wokół Różewicza. O śmiechu, fotografiach i głosie
%P 23-38
%K Tadeusz Różewicz, laughter, ridicule, humour, jester
%@ 1897-1962
%D 2022
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/wieloglos/article/z-czego-sie-smieje-wiersz-rozewicza
%X 
	An overview of motifs appearing in Tadeusz Różewicz’s poetry such as these of “jester” and “clownery,” “smile,” “laughter” and “mockery” serves as a background for the title reflection, in which the questions of affirmation of someone else’s joy of life; acceptance for ludic laughter; therapeutic role of laughter in face of war trauma; and satirical distance from the observed events come to the forefront. In Różewicz’s oeuvre, a meta-poetic reflexion on the role of laughter in poetry appears from the very beginning as well. The laughter means here the critique or the negation of poetry and the poet; irony and self-mockery – of different type and of different reach that go to the extremes of negative self-topicality. Ridicule of a poem becomes a leitmotif in the late oeuvre of Różewicz as its loudest manifestations are contained in the volume Płaskorzeźba [Bas-relief].