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Year 1956. October thaw. “A cut branch fell on me and I fell with it. I hit the ground and my bones snapped. (…) October thundered above me (…) I lay motionless and licked the blood flowing from my nose. I got myself together around the middle of 1957. (…) one night, with my head tilted upwards, I understood that there was a starry sky above me and a moral law within me” [T. Konwicki, "Calendar and Hourglass"]. It was at this point that our #GameChanger felt he had to challenge the status quo.
Year 1966. Prof. is expelled from Warsaw University. Leszek Kołakowski. Tadeusz Konwicki defends his colleague, falls out of favor with the authorities and is officially expelled from the party.
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Year 1968. Konwicki again violates the current norms and defends the students who are against the removal of "The Eve" from the stage directed by Kazimierz Dejmek. From now on, only the second edition and the London publishers remain to be published. Paradoxically, it spreads its wings.
Time for changes
A true #GameChanger can work in two ways – to introduce changes in an industry they already operate in, or to initiate innovation in a new market. Konwicki combined these activities into one.
And so, in the books he wrote, he became a fierce critic of socialist realism and the policies of the authorities of the time. For "Little Apocalypse", published in London, he won the "Premio letterario internationale Mondello", the most important international Italian award for the best foreign language book published in Italy. But that was just the beginning. Konwicki left behind several dozen books, diaries and columns.
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