A literary artist of great talents, a novelist and a literary critic who has a doctorate in German literature. An eminent authority on the work of Thomas Mann.
A novelist, literary critic and translator of German literature born in 1958.
This literary artist of great talents has a doctorate in German literature and is an eminent authority on the work of Thomas Mann and author of numerous studies of contemporary German literature, he is most concerned with recent Polish prose. In recent years he has made a name for himself as a playwright. He is the author of highly-regarded dramas and collaborates with the prestigious Słowacki Theatre in Cracow, which boasts a tradition more than one hundred years old.
His prose is highly personal even when he publishes under a pseudonym, as in the case of The Black Riviere Necklace, which he signed with the pen-name Johann Keevus. His sketches in literary criticism, such as Existence Existing: Essays on Prose (1995) are also personal in nature. This latter tome contains an extraordinarily original perspective, entirely Jerzy Lukosz's own, on the literature of recent decades.
Lukosz's prose is in its element when he analyzes human consciousness and examines the links that bond public experience and internal experience, or the world of imagination and the world of dreams. This prose reveals the author's roots in the traditions of German literature.
Selected Bibliography:
- Prose:
- Dziedzictwo / Heritage, Warsaw: Iskry, 1986
- Czarna kolia / The Black Riviere Necklace) (under the pseudonym Johann Keevus), Poznan: Kantor Wydawniczy SAWW, 1992
- Afgański romans. Jedno życie, czyli wędrówka dusz / Afghan Romance. One Life, Or The Migration of Souls, Warsaw: PIW, 1997
Literary Criticism: - Byt bytujący. Esej o prozie / Existence Existing: An Essay on Prose, Wrocław: Towarzystwo Polonistyki Wrocławskiej, 1995
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The book Lenora by Jerzy Lukosz has been nominated for the 2005 Nike Award.