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| ''The Undivine Comedy'' (Polish: Nie-Boska komedia) is a drama by ], a Polish romantic poet. | |||
| ''The Undivine Comedy'' (Polish: Nie-Boska komedia) is a drama by ], a Polish nationalist poet. A "tainted masterpiece", it serves as a foundational ] of Polish antisemitism in the modern era.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Adamiecka-Sitek |first1= Agata |title=Poles, Jews and Aesthetic Experience: On the Cancelled Theatre Production by Olivier Frljić |journal= Polish Theatre Journal |date=2016|volume=1 |url= https://polishtheatrejournal.com/index.php/ptj/article/view/43/146 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Szczuka |first1= Kazimiera |title=Bohater, Spisek, Smierc: Wyklady Zydowskie (Hero, Conspiracy Death: The Jewish Lectures) |journal=Shofar |date=2011|volume=23 |issue=3 |page=53 |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/shofar.29.3.122?seq=1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Janion|first1=Maria|title=Bohater, spisek, śmierć |date=2009 |publisher=W.A.B.|page=90 |isbn=978-83-7414-268-7|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7hlvBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT90&dq=Krasi%C5%84ski+%22mit+za%C5%82o%C5%BCycielski+polskiego+antysemityzmu%22}}</ref> This work is profoundly embarrassing yet canonical in Polish culture, similar to ]. Krasiński, a conservative catastrophist, presents a vision of impending disaster of revolution.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Adamiecka-Sitek |first1= Agata |title=Poles, Jews and Aesthetic Experience: On the Cancelled Theatre Production by Olivier Frljić |journal= Polish Theatre Journal |date=2016|volume=1 |url= https://polishtheatrejournal.com/index.php/ptj/article/view/43/146 }}</ref> | |||
| ''The Undivine Comedy'' positing a ] against Christians was among the first or possible the first work in a string of modern ] literary works in Europe leading to the ],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duker |first1=Abraham |title=THE MYSTERY OF THE JEWS IN MICKIEWICZ'S TOWIANIST LECTURES ON SLAV LITERATURE |journal=The Polish Review |volume=7 |issue=3 |page=53 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25776415?seq=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bronner |first1=Stepehn Eric |title=A Rumor about the Jews: Conspiracy, Anti-Semitism, and the Protocols of Zion |date=2019 |publisher=Palgrave macmillan |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yzpsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=Krasinski%2B%22undivine%2Bcomedy%22%2B%22Jewish%2Bconspiracy%22%2B%22first%2Bwork%22}}</ref> and is similar to the work by by Nazi theorist ] in 1938.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Massey |first1=Irving |title=Philo-Semitism in Nineteenth-Century German Literature |date=2000 |publisher=Max Niemeyer Verlag |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SFpbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=%22Zygmunt+Krasinski%22++%22Jewish+menace%22+%22Carl+Schmitt%22+%22take+over+the+world%22}}</ref> Krasiński work was enthusiastically received by ], a notorious antisemite, who saw the work as portending the Russian communist revolution.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Segal|first1=Harold |title=Polish Romantic Drama: Three Plays in English Translation |date=1997 |publisher=Harwood academic publishers|page=28-29 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=36n02bTIbPUC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=%22notorious+anti-Semite,+Chesterton+admires+The+Un-Divine+Comedy+not+only+for+its%22 }}</ref> Krasiński's views of Jews being anti-Polish and anti-Christian are the polar opposite of ] who envisioned a free and equal Poland.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fiecko |first1=J. |title=A DISPUTE BETWEEN MICKIEWICZ AND KRASINSKI OVER THE PLACE OF JEWS AMONG POLES |journal=Pamiętnik Literacki |date=2008 |volume=99 |issue=2 |pages=5-21 |url=https://www.infona.pl/resource/bwmeta1.element.5b20dbab-de12-37a6-a65a-6739474a94c8}}</ref> | |||
| While the antisemitic motif of this piece is accepted by Polish literary specialists, it is suppressed in the Polish public. This work is taught in Polish high schools, however educational materials are silent on antisemitism and discard uncomfortable material.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Adamiecka-Sitek |first1= Agata |title=Poles, Jews and Aesthetic Experience: On the Cancelled Theatre Production by Olivier Frljić |journal= Polish Theatre Journal |date=2016|volume=1 |url= https://polishtheatrejournal.com/index.php/ptj/article/view/43/146 }}</ref> | |||
| ==Modern adaptations== | |||
| Konrad Swinarski 1965 theater adaptation, preceded the 1968 expulsion of the Jews from Poland and produced twenty years after the Holocaust in which Polish society were mainly bystanders. Swinarski's adpatation highlighted Krasiński's antisemitism as a fundemental ideological frame, making everything "part of a plan to destroy the Christian world, realized by the Satanic-Jewish conspiracy".<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Adamiecka-Sitek |first1= Agata |title=Poles, Jews and Aesthetic Experience: On the Cancelled Theatre Production by Olivier Frljić |journal= Polish Theatre Journal |date=2016|volume=1 |url= https://polishtheatrejournal.com/index.php/ptj/article/view/43/146 }}</ref> | |||
| In 2013, a Oliver Frljić's adaptation titled "The Un-Divine Comedy: Remains" (Polish: Nie-Boska komedia. Szczątki) set to premiere at ] was suspended after right-wing pressure, the most drastic censorship in theater since the collapse of the ]. Theater director Jan Klata stated the cancellation was for the "the safety of the actors and the entire theatre". Frljić intended to show Polish society, with "obscene bluntness", the antisemitic core around which it formed.<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Adamiecka-Sitek |first1= Agata |title=Poles, Jews and Aesthetic Experience: On the Cancelled Theatre Production by Olivier Frljić |journal= Polish Theatre Journal |date=2016|volume=1 |url= https://polishtheatrejournal.com/index.php/ptj/article/view/43/146 }}</ref> | |||
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The Undivine Comedy (Polish: Nie-Boska komedia) is a drama by Zygmunt Krasiński, a Polish romantic poet.