The Literary “No” to Politically Tabooed Topics during the Polish People’s Republic. The Case of Tadeusz Konwicki’s Prose Writing

• Authors: Hanna Gosk
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Using the example of characteristic works by Tadeusz Konwicki, one of the main post-war Polish writers, the article discusses literary ways of taking up topics functioning in the Polish People’s Republic as political taboos. War and post-war relations with the Soviet Union, the fate of Polish inhabitants of the eastern borderlands, the motif of the Home Army struggle against the Soviet army altogether constituted a proscribed area of interest. The analysis shows how the literary resistance against silencing, expressed through allusions, understatements, the poetics of traumatic realism and the grotesque — makes the writer an agent of collective memory.

Keywords

EN

Tadeusz Konwicki; political taboo; silence; resistance; agent of memory

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5: Special Issue, vol. I: THE TROPICS OF RESISTANCE: Languages, genres, rhetoric
• Pages: 91-102

Contributors

author

Hanna Gosk

• University of Warsaw