"Beznogi garbus o pięknej twarzy" : szkic do portretu Sołomona Barta

Abstract

The paper is devoted to Salomon Bart (1885-1941), a poet and an emigrant, who moved to Warsaw after the October Revolution. In the 1930s, he joined Literaturnoe Sodruzhestvo, which gathered Russian intellectuals and artists in Poland. He published five volumes of poetry, focusing predominantly on death. Even during his lifetime, he was considered a peculiar poet. In October of 1940, he was transported to and held in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he died of hunger.