Bruno Jasieński

Michal Nikodem (University of Silesia)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.3: Polish Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Ewa M. Thompson (Rice University)

Dates

Born 17 Jul 1901
Died 17 Sep 1938
Activity 1919-1937

Places

Born in Poland
Active in Poland; France; Russia

Cultural Identities

Jewish European

Activities

Primary

Poet
Prose writer

Other

Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Jasieński's Works

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Bruno Jasieński was a Polish and Soviet writer. His most famous works are the collection of poems

But w butonierce

[A Boot in a Buttonhole] (1921), and the novels

Palę Paryż

[

I Burn Paris

] (1928) and

Chelovek meniaet kozhu

[

Man Changes His Skin

] (1932–1933). In Poland, he was known for his activities in a group of futurists, who tried to transplant ideas promoted by Italian and Russian futurists on Polish ground. They organized scandalizing poetry evenings and published one-off newspapers containing manifestos with demands for "the immediate futurization of life". In the Soviet Union, Jasieński published poems and plays in which he inveighed against the Western European bourgeoisie and wrote production novels that met the aesthetic and political dictates of socialist realism. His…

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Citation: Nikodem, Michal. "Bruno Jasieński". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 March 2018 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13978, accessed 27 November 2024.]