Twarz Tuwima

More than a biography, the book follows the poet Julian Tuwim and his turbulent times: a poor Jewish youth in Łódź, Warsaw and the Skamander group, the war years in the United States and the brief hopes and deep disillusion of postwar Poland. It draws on his writings, critics, friends and unknown letters, on his mother's illness and his own swings between depression and euphoria. The Holocaust, in which his mother was killed while he escaped, shaped his growing sense of belonging to the Jewish people. The book also reads his poems closely.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

770 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Poland, United States

First published

2007 by Wydawnictwo W.A.B.

Author's age

64 when first published

ISBN

9788374140416 (original)