The Polish Trial of Kafka. On the Reception of Franz Kafka and So-Called “Dark Literature” by the Censorship Board

• Authors: Mojsak, Kajetan

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the reception of Franz Kafka’s novels and the so-called “dark literature”, popular after 1956, by the censorship board. It presents the discussions around Kafka’s work and various interpretational strategies used to secure this literature a place in the culture of People’s Republic of Poland. The article presents analyses of the censors’ reviews of Kafka’s (but also Sartre’s or Faulkner’s) novels and offers insight into the censorship process and the literary life of the late 1950s in general.

Keywords

EN

Franz Kafka; censorship

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 7

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Mojsak, Kajetan

other

Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Literary Research

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Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/22129

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.37.13