Rafał Wojaczek
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Life
Rafał Wojaczek (1945-1971) was a Polish poet of the postwar generation. He was a son of a respected family in Upper Silesia. His life was marked by abortive studies, alcoholism, depression and suicide attempts one of which ended his life. His short career took place during the turbulent years of modern Poland when the younger generation began to realize that they were trapped in a mendacious political system. Other Polish poets and writers with comparable biographies include Edward Stachura, Marek Hłasko and Tadeusz Borowski.
Work
Wojaczek's work translates the political and practical circumstances of life in Poland into universal and existential terms. His lyrical subject is often preoccupied with the brutality of the physical body along with its suffering and pleasures. By placing the physicality and sexuality of the individual in the context of the practical and political he achieves a depth of erotic and existential expression. His work has been compared by some to that of Lautréamont and Rimbaud.
Lyrics deal with alienation and personal disintegration; obsesion with ugliness and death; peculiar and drastic metaphors.
Some publications:
- Sezon (Season) - 1969
- Inna bajka (Another story) -1970
- Nie skończona krucjata (Not-finished crusade) - 1972
- Którego nie było (Who was not) - 1972
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