Osman Fırat Baş

Osman Fırat Baş – graduate of Polish Studies at Ankara University, literary critic, translator. Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań. In 2006, he was honored with a congratulatory letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland for his achievements in translation. Laureate of the Honorary Award of the Polish Culture Foundation for the promotion of Polish literature in the world (2014). Receiver of the Decoration of Honor Meritorious for Polish Culture (2015). Laureate of Ryszard Kapuściński Translation Prize (2016).

Osman Fırat Baş – doktor habilitowany, ukończył polonistykę na Uniwersytecie Ankarskim, literaturoznawca, tłumacz. Pracuje na Wydziale Filologii Polskiej i Klasycznej Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. W 2006 r. został uhonorowany listem gratulacyjnym MSZ RP za dorobek prac translatorskich. Laureat Nagrody Honorowej Fundacji Kultury Polskiej za promocję polskiej książki w świecie (2014). Laureat Odznaki „Zasłużony dla Kultury Polskiej” (2015). Laureat Nagrody Translatorskiej dla Tłumaczy Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego (2016).

Directional Tensions in Snow

Osman Fırat Baş

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Introduction

I borrow the term “directional tensions” from the Polish polymath, artist painter, writer, playwright, art critic and visionary, Witkacy.¹ We all know how he died. Having learned that the Red Army crossed the eastern border of Poland, he committed suicide on September 17, 1939.

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