Talk:Leopold Tyrmand

Jewish ancestry
I removed the part about his Jewish ancestry. It's a fact, but at this stage of article development, by itself it seems non-notable. There might be some sources out there which dwell upon the subject but I'm not sure if there's any reliable ones that bother with it.

As another aside, I recall reading an interview with Zbigniew Herbert somewhere where he's being very critical of pretty much all kinds of Polish intellectuals and writers (God bless that cynical Mr. Cogito) but also says that Tyrmand was the only writer/intellectual of that period he ever respected, even though when they were emigres, Tyrmand kept messing with Herbert by insisting that Poland'd be better off as a Soviet republic (tongue in cheek of course, given that Tyrmand was probably more anti-communist than Herbert himself). Anyway, "Zly" needs an article (especially since it's one of the few Polish literature classics that has been adequately translated into English) and this article needs serious expansion. Volunteer Marek (talk) 06:57, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

German Nazi concentration camp
Was Grini Norwegian concentration camp, or German concentration camp located in Norway? That is a big difference. Grzes (talk) 09:25, 17 November 2016 (UTC) The text was edited to be "Nazi concentration camp". However, there was no state called "Nazi" at that time, and the concentration camps in occupied Europe were built, owned and run by the authorities of the state of Germany*. That's why only "German concentration camp" can be correct.


 * The NSDAP (Nazi party) was not either at war with the states occupied by Wehrmacht.Jidu Boite (talk) 13:47, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

A social and emotional life
It is not a truth: Another Tyrmand novel which was never released in Poland was "Życie towarzyskie i uczuciowe" (A Social and Emotional Life) The first issue of this book in Polish was in 1967 in Paris, but later in Poland as well. Also a play under the same title was staged in one of Warsaw theatres. He returned to Poland in 1946 where he lived in Warsaw for twenty years. In 1940 in Vilno Tyrmand worked for the communist newspapers: "Comsomol Truth and Pioniers' Truth. His book "The man with white eyes" strangely reminds me movies Spiderman and Batman.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.177.2.232 (talk) 02:39, 11 September 2018 (UTC)

Parts removed from "Departure from Poland" section
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 * "A Social and Emotional Life" was completed in 1964.

Aoccording to the reference, it was completed in the first half of the 1960's, but the year is not specified.


 * "The last permission for a trip abroad was granted in 1959, and after that he was denied a passport."

The reference specifies that a passport was denied to Tyrmand since 1958 to 1965.

--Relojero Ciego (talk) 00:38, 8 June 2020 (UTC)