Słucki – dzieciom...

Abstract

Arnold Słucki (Aron Kreiner or Krajner), was born a hundred years ago, on April 15, 1920 in Tyszowce, a small town on the Huczwa River. This “forgotten poet” deserves attention mainly because despite his hectic life and significant artistic achievements, mentally, he never left his family shtetl. Among the poems from the early period of his so cialist-realist engagements, there can be found texts from “another world” (e.g., “In front of the Zamość Town Hall”, “Ballad on Icek Manager”, “Ballad on the Elderly”, “Old Painter”, “Return”). These are songs dating back to the times, places and people remembered from his childhood. Entering the “other world” opens up a completely unknown area of Słucki’s work – his poems for children included in a few collections: Poems for Ala’s (1965), Black and White Ravens (1965), Children of the Gobi Desert (1966), Market in Dziworaj (1967) and Malejka’s Day (1969). These texts are critically examined in the present article.