Here Comes Pankowski. Adventures in Ambiguity

The article offers a description of the rich literary output of the Polish writer Marian Pankowski and of the winding path his works have traversed over the past decades both in Western Europe and in his homeland. Its main assumption is that the peculiarities of Pankowskiʼs reception in Poland and abroad appear to be bound up with the artistic and ideological choices the author of Rudolf has made throughout his long-lasting career as a poet, playwright and novelist. The general description serves as a background for the introduction of the other ten papers included in this special issue dedicated to Pankowskiʼs ambiguous literary output.