Jastrun, Mieczysław

Jastrun, Mieczysław

▪ Polish author and poet
born October 29, 1903, Korolówka, Austria-Hungary [now in Ukraine]
died February 23, 1983, Warsaw, Poland

      Polish lyric poet and essayist whose work represents a constant quest for new poetic forms of expression.

      Jastrun received his doctorate in Polish literature at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. The dozen volumes of poems that he published between the two world wars show his growth from an imitator of the Skamander group to a mature, independent poet with a mastery of form. He spent the World War II years first in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) and then, from 1941, in Warsaw, where he was associated with the underground communist group. Immediately after the war he became the deputy editor of the communist literary periodical Kuźnica. His wartime poetry collections, Godzina strzeżona (1944; “A Curfew Hour”) and Rzecz ludzka (1946; “The Human Story”), reflect upon the national experience during the German occupation. Jastrun's poems published after the mid-1950s, Gorácy popiół (1956; “Hot Ashes”) and Genezy (1959; “Genesis”), move from politics toward metaphysical and philosophical themes. He also wrote a number of biographical studies and novels on Poland's famous poets, including Adam Mickiewicz (Mickiewicz, Adam) (1949), Juliusz Słowacki (Słowacki, Juliusz) (1951), and Jan Kochanowski (Kochanowski, Jan) (1954). In addition, he published collections of essays followed by personal recollections, among which Smuga światła (1983; “The Line of Light”) reflects on his gradual disillusionment with politics and political involvements.

Jerzy R. Krzyzanowski
 

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