“The Issa Valley”, “Lava” and “Chronicle of Amorous Occurrences”: Tadeusz Konwicki’s Auteur Production
Abstract
Tadeusz Konwicki is known as a writer and film maker whose creative activity is invariably related to Lithuania, the perfect place that is lost for ever. Konwicki is also the screenwriter and author of the film adaptations of Czesław Milosz’s The Issa Valley, Adam Mickiewicz’s Forefathers’ Eve and - what is totally exceptional - his own novel Chronicle of Amorous Occurrences. The aim of this article is to analyze the adaptation design uniting the films into „the Lithuanian triptych”. Its essence is to translate die novel into the language and structure of the writing of Konwicki, who thereby becomes its new author and - as a reader and interpreter - a hero. An old „stranger”, whose memory integrates all the events, appears in all the films. In this way Konwicki spiritually unites with his fellow countrymen, Miłosz and Mickiewicz. Therefore, „the Lithuanian triptych” is a whole as an emotional portrait of the authors whom Lithuania formed and united in a spiritual knot of eternal exiles.
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Tadeusz Konwicki, Lithuanian triptych, Czesław MiłoszReferences
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Barbara Głębicka-Gizakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
Absolwentka UMCS w Lublinie. W roku 2003 obroniła pracę doktorską pt. Między literaturą a filmem. O scenopisarstwie Tadeusza Konwickiego. Obecnie współpracownik Instytutu Kultury Polskiej UW oraz redakcji „Nowych Książek”.
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