Kruczkowski Leon

Kruczkowski Leon – ur. 28.VI.1900 in Krakow, He died on October 1, 1962 in Warsaw, prose novel, Dramaturg, Social activist associated with the left. He debuted as a poet (Hammers over the world, 1928). Author of the novels using factual materials (m.in. Kordian and Cham, 1932, A song dedicated to challenging the legend of the November Uprising), First of all, the playwright: adaptacja sceniczna Kordiana and Chama (1935), The hero of our time – Dabmannn (1935), Retreat (1948), Germany (1949), Julius and Ethel (1954), The first day of freedom (1959), Governor's death (1961), Adventure with Vaterland (issue. 1963). During the occupation, prisoner of prisoner -of -war camps, Literary Head of the Camp Theater of Symbolism (m.in. inscenizował Fausta), After the liberation, a state activist, envoy, President of ZLP.

In his work he realized the ideal of socially involved literature, Also looking for in journalism the answer to the question about the shape of socialist art. Wyrazem tej postawy był debiut powieściowy Kruczkowskiego Kordian and Cham, One of the most discussed books of the interwar period (Near Pre -spring Żeromskiego). Kruczkowski wrote a documentary novel, based on the diaries of a rural teacher, Kazimierz Deczyński and other historical sources, Pointing to class contradictions as the most important cause of the defeat of the November Uprising. Bohaterowi chłopskiemu przeciwstawiony został Kordian, Feluś Czartkowski, mediocre, about tight horizons, choć i cham nie jest bohaterem bez skazy, It also has naive hope in tsarist justice. Regardless of the simplifications of national liberation issues, the novel gained a wide resonance, Also thanks to its artistic advantages. Kruczkowski was attacked both due to the undermining of the heroic legend of the noble heroes, jak i na zatrzymanie się halfway w charakterystyce bohatera ludowego, which goes back before drawing evolutionary conclusions from the experience of your class. Kruczkowski answered the fields: Stara Rzeczpospolita narodu szlacheckiego upadła wśród głuchej, wooden indifference of millions of masses of the peasant people. In addition to social issues, Kruczkowski's equivalent area of ​​writing was the issue of the relationship between the individual and the society, as well as threats brought to social life by fascism. Niemal połowa twórczości Kruczkowskiego wiąże się z German complex. Already in 1933 pisarz objeżdżał kraj z odczytem Glow over Germany, And the years spent in captivity resulted in the two most important dramas in Kruczkowski's achievements, devoted to the problem of the individual freedom in the conditions of the totalitarian system reign (Germany, The first day of freedom).