11 Facts About Sydor Rey

Sydor Rey born Izydor Reiss was a Polish poet and novelist.

Sydor Rey studied law and political science at the Lvov University and at Warsaw University.

Sydor Rey was a member of the literary collective Przedmiescie in Warsaw.

Rudnicki had resigned from membership before the publication of their magazine in 1934, while Halina Krahelska and Sydor Rey were inducted as new members.

Sydor Rey's vignette entitled Spacer deals with the thorny subject of race relations in a homoerotic context.

Sydor Rey was one of the signatories of the open letter of the Polish writers against the bloody pacification by the Polish police of the workers' protests against the Sanacja regime in March 1936.

Sydor Rey appended his literary testament with the following codicil.

Sydor Rey was listed by the Wiadomosci of London among the Polish writers in exile who ought to be members of the Polish Academy of Literature were such an institution to be established.

Sydor Rey granted an interview to the Polish Radio in 1963, apparently on a visit to Warsaw.

Since Sydor Rey did not publish essays, his philosophical ideas found expression in his fiction, both in prose and in verse.

Sydor Rey was an admirer of the works of Thornton Wilder, to whom he dedicated a poem, acknowledging his indebtedness in the writing of Ksiega rozbitkow to the style of Wilder's play Our Town.