Edward Stachura

Edward Jerzy Stachura ( born August 18, 1937 in Charvieu, France, † 24 July 1979, Warsaw) was a Polish writer, poet and songwriter.

Biography

Stachura is born in a family of Polish immigrants in Charvieu in the Rhône -Alpes ( France). He was the second child of Stanisław and Jadwiga Stachura.

In November 1948, the family returned to Poland and settled in Łazieniec at Aleksandrów Kujawski.

In the period 1957-1965 Stachura studied Romance languages ​​at the Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Warsaw.

He also translated from the Spanish and French, among others Works of Jorge Luis Borges, Gaston Miron and Michel Deguy, and also wrote songs.

Stachura died on 24 July 1979 in Warsaw after a paranoid schizophrenic episode by suicide.

The Stachura legend

Due to the non-conformist and uncompromising poetic, partly for the purposes of Holderlin, orientation of his works Stachura was already a life-long idol of the alternatively aligned Polish youth of the 1980s. Although his prose and poetry were attributed subsequently the hippie ideology, blows up Stachuras Write the boundaries of any codified currents.

The open non-political work made ​​it possible Stachura to enjoy in the former reality of communist Poland the privileges of a successful in the sense of the People's Republic of artist. The artist was ( among other things, apartment, telephone) generously subsidized by scholarships, trips abroad and in kind.

His songs sang Stachura with stresses in a cracked voice, while he accompanied himself on the guitar with the help of simple chord progressions. The rare recordings of his performances achieved posthumously a collector's value.

After his suicide Stachura became a cult person of alternative youth culture in Poland. Poetry festivals under his name acquired the status of pop events, and the life design of a " wandering poet ", thousands of young people as their own. Stachuras outfit - Army jacket, jeans, backpack, sturdy shoes - became the distinctive mark like-minded people and a symbol of non-conformism.

Trivia

The Postum Complete Edition of Stachuras works should appear in the original envelope from denim canvas. Given the shortage economy of the 1980s in Poland, the five bands, however, were published in paperback format; the envelopes were printed after all, with jeans pattern.

Works

  • Every Refer to 1962
  • Duzo ognia, 1963
  • Falując na wietrze, 1966
  • Przystępuję do ciebie, 1968
  • Po ogrodzie Niech hula szarańcza, 1968
  • Cała jaskrawość, 1969
  • Siekierezada albo Zima Leśnych ludzi, 1971
  • Piosenki, 1973
  • Piosenki, 1974
  • Kropka nad ypsylonem 1975
  • Opowiadania, 1977
  • Się, 1977
  • Missa pagana, 1978
  • Fabula rasa, 1979
  • Duzo ognia i tak dalej, 1978
  • Oto, 1979

Films

  • Siekierezada (1985 ), directed by Witold Leszczynski
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