Maciej Słomczyński

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Maciej Słomczyński (April 10, 1922 – March 21, 1998) was a Polish

translator and writer
. For his detective stories he used the pen names Joe Alex and Kazimierz Kwaśniewski.

Life and work

Born in

American Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, and the screenwriter, director and producer of the film King Kong. His mother was an Englishwoman, Marjorie Słomczyńska née Crosby (1884–1954). He adopted his last name, Słomczyński, after his stepfather, Aleksander Słomczyński, who married Marjorie after she had not agreed to leave for the United States with Cooper.[1] However, the fatherhood of Cooper has been questioned, among others, by his family.[2]

In 1941, he joined the

Home Army. In 1944 he was arrested and imprisoned in Pawiak
, from which he managed to escape. Later he moved West and served in the American Gendarmerie in France.

He debuted as a poet in 1946 in the "Tydzień" magazine in Łódź. In 1947 he returned to Poland and seven years later he moved permanently to Kraków.

After the war he was persecuted and questioned as a suspected British spy. For a few months in 1953 he worked for the

State Security
and he fled to Gdańsk to break the contact with the agency. Later, he persistently refused to cooperate.

He is the author of the 1957 novel "Cassiopeia", in which he presented the attitudes of the artistic circles towards communism and the reasons, which made a great part of these circles to serve the new government.

He translated Ulysses and Gulliver's Travels into Polish; he was the only person in the world[citation needed] to translate all the works of William Shakespeare. His translations of Shakespeare were, however, subjected to critique for the lack of clarity, faithfulness to the original or any literary value.[3][4]

He was the member of the

Rotary Club
, as well as the vice-president of the international association "The James Joyce Foundation", and since 1973, a member of the Irish Institute.

Słomczyński's grave

Joe Alex and Kazimierz Kwaśniewski

Słomczyński was the author of

USSR
were published without his permission or without the permission of his descendants.


Bibliography

As Maciej Słomczyński:

  • Lądujemy 6 czerwca
  • Zadanie porucznika Kenta
  • Fabryka śmierci
  • Szary cień

As Joe Alex:

  • Śmierć mówi w moim imieniu
  • Cichym ścigałam go lotem
  • Gdzie przykazań brak dziesięciu
  • Niechaj odnajdą swoich wrogów
  • Zmącony spokój Pani Labiryntu
  • Cicha jak ostatnie tchnienie
  • Jesteś tylko diabłem
  • Piekło jest we mnie
  • Powiem wam jak zginął
  • Czarne okręty

As Kazimierz Kwaśniewski:

  • Śmierć i Kowalski
  • Zbrodniarz i panna
  • Każę aktorom powtórzyć morderstwo
  • Gdzie jest trzeci król?
  • Ciemna jaskinia
  • Czarny Kwiat

References

  1. ^ Hollender B., Film o Amerykaninie, który walczył za Polskę, Rzeczpospolita, no 150, 29 June 2007, p. A13
  2. ^ Gazeta Wyborcza, 18 September 2003, date of access 2008-03-29, 18:33
  3. ^ Staniewska, Anna (March 1983). "Maciej Słomczyński vs. William Shakespeare". Puls. Archived from the original on 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2009-11-21.
  4. ^ Barańczak, Stanisław. 2004. "Ocalone w tłumaczeniu". Wyd. a5, Kraków.
  5. ^ http://www.e-teatr.pl/pl/artykuly/41618.html "Kobra znów kąsa"] ["Cobra Bites Again"], (original from dziennik.pl, October 13, 2007, is here, with many advertisements)
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