Jan Marx and Tadeusz Różewicz. Two heroes of the book “Between the Tower of Babel and the Tower of Ivory. On the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz”

Abstract

In the paper Jan Marx i Tadeusz Różewicz. Dwaj bohaterowie książki „Pomiędzy wieżą Babel a wieżą z kości słoniowej. O poezji Tadeusza Różewicza” (Jan Marx and Tadeusz Różewicz. Two heroes of the book „Between the Tower of Babel and the Tower of Ivory. On the poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz”) two attitudes towards life, that of the author of the book in question and that of the protagonist, were compared. They are both secular humanists who want to make human life rational and moral. Marx, however, accepts suicide as a remedy for evil, while Różewicz affirms life.