Witold Zalewski (4 January 1921, in
Siedlce
Siedlce [] ( yi, שעדליץ ) is a city in eastern Poland with 77,354 inhabitants (). Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999), previously the city was the capital of a separate Siedlce Voivodeship (1975–1998). The city is situated b ...
– 2009) is a Polish writer, publicist and prosaist. During the
Occupation of Poland
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* Occupation (human activity), or job, one's role in society, often a regular activity performed for payment
*Occupation (protest), political demonstration by holding public or symbolic spaces
*Military occupation, t ...
he was a soldier of
Armia Krajowa and participated in
Warsaw Uprising
The Warsaw Uprising ( pl, powstanie warszawskie; german: Warschauer Aufstand) was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led ...
. Zalewski was associated with conspiratory magazine ''Dźwigary'', editorial board member of weekly magazine ''Pokolenie'' (1946–1947), publicist of ''Przegląd Kulturalny'' (1952–1963), publicist of ''Kultura'' (1963–1970).
In his works, Zalewski refers to war events, his generation, and relations between his generation and
socialist realism
Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is c ...
. He analyses moral choices of war and occupation period. Zalewski is an author of one of the Polish socialist-realist book ''Traktory zdobędą wiosnę''.
Selected works
* ''Mrok'' (1943) – debut story published in ''Dźwigary''
* ''Śmiertelni bohaterowie'' (1946) – story
* ''Broń'' (1948) – novel
* ''Ranny w lesie'' (1960)
* ''Traktory zdobędą wiosnę'' (1950)
* ''Pruski mur'' (1964)
* ''Splot słoneczny'' (1972)
* ''Czarne jagody'' (1975)
* ''Dolina Królów'' (1976) – essay
* ''Odmiany nadziei'' (1968)
* ''Ostatni postój'' (1979) – novel about
January Uprising
* ''Pożegnanie twierdzy'' (1985)
* ''Wysłannik'' (1988)
* ''Pożegnanie twierdzy'' (2000)
* ''Zakładnicy'' (2001) – novel with autobiographical elements
See also
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Socialist realism in Poland
Socialist realism in Poland ( pl, socrealizm) was a socio-political and aesthetic doctrine enforced by the pro-Soviet communist government in the process of Stalinization of the post-war Polish People’s Republic. The official policy was introduce ...
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1921 births
2009 deaths
People from Siedlce
Home Army members
Polish male novelists
Polish publicists
Polish essayists
Polish male essayists
Socialist realism writers
20th-century Polish novelists
20th-century essayists
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland
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