Marek Hlasko

Marek Hlasko - Writer. Born 1934 in Warsaw, died 1969 in Wiesbaden. It is a long-time observation that the brevity of Marek Hlasko's life is no help to his biographers. Indeed, Hlasko's life, with its tragic course and mysterious end at 26, Hauberisserstrasse in Wiesbaden on the night of 14th June 1969, can be divided into a few parallel biographies which bear so little resemblance to one another and are so different and self-contradictory as if they were some multiple choice alternatives. The ambivalent and often mutually exclusive "eye witness" accounts - by those who spent time and drank with Hlasko - create a tangle which is hardly undone by literary critics, who either remain too involved and partial or, in contrast, make no allowances, challenge the idol, focus on the details, and accuse the Hlasko biographers and acolytes of imperfection and erring. read more on: culture.pl - Marek Hlasko