An Excursion to the Museum (Wycieczka do muzeum)

About the Author: Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014) was a poet, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, essayist and translator, who experienced the “fulfilled apocalypse” of World War II and the Holocaust. When his education was cut short in 1939 by the outbreak of World War II, he worked temporary jobs to support his family, and fought for two years in the Polish underground Home Army (Armia Krajowa). It was at this time that he started writing patriotic poems and poetic prose, and working as editor for the underground newspaper Czyn Zbrojny. Różewicz studied history of art at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (1945–1949), where he became involved with the neo-avantgarde „Grupa Krakowska”. In 1950, Różewicz made a sojourn to Hungary, and lived in Wrocław from 1968 until his death. His extensive work, which was shaped by the hardship of war, the occupation, and the Holocaust, made him a widely recognised author as well as a highly regarded moral authority.