Michał Choromański (9 June O.S. 1904 – 14 May 1972), was a Polish writer, playwright and translator. He is best known for his novelistic studies of psychological states.[1]
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Michał Choromański was born in Yelisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi), into a Polish doctor's family as the son of biologist Konstanty Choromański, who died during World War I.[1] He spent his childhood and youth in Yelisavetgrad and attended the high school and the Technical School of Economics, and was writing his first poems in Russian.[2][3] Experiencing chaos and the horrors of revolutionary Russia, Choromański moved from Yelisavetgrad first to Warsaw and then to Podhale in 1924.[4][5] He studied pedagogy and psychology and as a 17-year-old started working as a tutor, paramedic and hospital administrator, drawing teacher and literary director of a workers' club and wrote reviews for a suburban newspaper.[3][2] He was also interested in painting and created portraits.[6] He fell ill from ankle tuberculosis, caused by stress and misery, but was able to avoid leg amputation and was treated in spas.[7][2]
Biali bracia (1931)
Zazdrość i medycyna (1932), screened (1973)
Opowiadania dwuznaczne (1934)
Szpital Czerwonego Krzyża (printed in „Czas” 1937, separate edition 1959)
Prolegomena do wszelkich nauk hermetycznych (1958)
Schodami w górę, schodami w dół (1965), screened (1988)
Dygresje na temat kaloszy (1966)
Makumba, czyli drzewo gadające (1968)
W rzecz wstąpić (1968)
Słowacki wysp tropikalnych (1969)
Głownictwo, moglitwa i praktykarze (1969)
Kotły Beethovenowskie (1970)
Różowe krowy i szare scandalie (1970)
Miłosny atlas anatomiczny (1972)
Memuary (1976, cześniej drukowane w „Przekroju”)
Opowiadanie wariackie (1979)
Skandal w Wesołych Bagniskach (1993); filmed as the Polish comedy horror Horror w Wesołych Bagniskach (1995)
