
He left the Party in 1964,īut his idealistic and cultured vision of a communist future was finally Of a once loyal, but struggling communist. In communism, began to waver, and his criticisms of the Party were those Sent to teach in a provincial university. Judged 'too weak for real political work' he was Power structure of post-war Poland changed, Kott found himself InitiallyĪ favoured son of the regime, wooed and pampered by the Party, as the Socialist-realist magazine Kuznica and even joined the Party. Moscow-backed resistance, later helped edit the important Kott's literary criticism is in every sense Marxist,Īnd much of his early career was given over to helping establish Influence on the work of theatre practitioners and literary critics the Internationally respected, particularly for his inventive, sensitive and Jan Kott is Poland's best known literary critic. My meaning is that I do not want you to be There have been in every revolution heartsīroken by such successes. Hopes grotesquely betrayed, ideals caricatured - that is the definition Victims: the victims of disgust, of disenchantment - often of remorse. They are not the leaders of the revolution. Unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes awayįrom them. Scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures the You will notice that I have left out the mere rogues. Pretentious intellectual failures of the time. Violent revolution falls into the hands of narrow-minded fanatics and of


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