Tadeusz Różewicz tra l’immondezzaio e il silenzio

In this article some characteristics of the late poetic work of Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-2014) are examined,highlighting the poet’s evolution from the 1991 masterpiece,Bas-relief, to one of the last volumes pub-lished by the poet,Buy a Pig in a Poke(2008). In particular, a fundamental aspect of Różewicz’s entirepoetics will be taken into consideration, the role of silence. The poetics of reticence, particularly visible in Bas-relief, transforms radically in the poet’s last works, undergoing an almost complete inversion; silence is replaced with a seemingly meaningless logorrhoea that actually hides a great wealth of meaning.Tadeusz Różewicz engages in linguistic and stylistic experimentation to face, and often to criticise with great irony, contemporary society. In this way Różewicz confirms himself, up to the last phase of hisartistic creation, as an avant-gardist par excellence.