Jaros%C5%82aw Iwaszkiewicz

Jarosaw Iwaszkiewicz, also known under his literary pseudonym Eleuter , was a Polish poet, essayist, dramatist and writer. He is mostly recognized for his literary achievements in poetry before World War II, but also criticized as a longterm political opportunist in communist Poland, actively participating in the slander of Czesaw Miosz and other expatriates. He was removed from school textbooks by the new capitalist regime in the early nineties.

Iwaszkiewicz was born in Kalnik in Kiev Governorate . After the death of his father , he and his mother lived in Warsaw between 19021904, and then moved back to Ukraine in 19041912. He graduated from a secondary school in Kiev in 1912 and enrolled at the Law Faculty of Kiev University. In 1914 he travelled in Sicily and North Africa with his friend and distant cousin, the composer Karol Szymanowski, for whose opera King Roger he later provided the libretto. After World War I, in October 1918 he returned to Warsaw. There, he joined a group of local artists who had started Pro Arte et Studio arts magazine. Iwaszkiewicz with Julian Tuwim and Antoni Sonimski cofounded the Skamander group of experimental poets in 1919.

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