Napis (Jan 2020)
Trzy inedita, errata do tomu *** Antoniego Pawlaka
Abstract
In 1983, Główny Urząd Kontroli Publikacji i Widowisk (GUKPiW) [Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows] did not allow for the printing of several poems by Antoni Pawlak, which were supposed to appear in the poetic volume titled ***. The texts were forgotten for a long time. They were, however, preserved in the GUKPiW documentation. Thanks to this, it was possible to recover them after many years, through archival queries conducted by the Archiwum Akt Nowych [Archive of New Files] in Warsaw. The aim of the article is to describe the history of the lost poems by Pawlak and to present them in their full versions. The paper also references the biography of the author, as well as the socio-political aspects of the Polish People’s Republic in the 1980s, and the issues of censoring of Polish literature at the time.
