(Un)finished dialogue in a poem. Tadeusz Różewicz – Franz Kafka

Abstract

The object of reflection is a poem by Tadeusz Różewicz przerwana rozmowa ("interrupted conversation"), which is dedicated to Franz Kafka. The poem is a farewell, intended by the poet as one last attempt to face the "mystery" of the writer. Attempt which concludes many years of "meetings" with the person and the work of the author from Prague. After 70 years of reading Kafka's works, Różewicz seems to be saying in przerwana rozmowa that all that we know about the writer is the fact that we will never get to the phenomenon of this existence and work, stopping only at the level of the inexpressible.