The article discusses the literary identity of Marek Krajewski’s fiction. The analysis of his novels serves mainly to indicate their both literary patterns: detective story and hard-boiled fiction. However, Krajewski is inspired not only by them, but also by the bourgeois realism. The article is an attempt to clarify some problems emerging from this poetics. Special attention is paid to such literary structures as presented space, social life schemes and, particularly, the “bourgeois demonism,” i.e. Discreet fascination of urban violence and depravity in the bourgeois novel.
A conversation with the present/absent one. Niepokoje. Twórczość Tadeusza Różewicza wobec Zagłady. Red. Piotr Krupiński. Warszawa, Żydowski Instytut Historyczny, 2014, ss. 248. The review discusses a collection of articles entitled Niepokoje. Twórczość TadeuszaRóżewicza wo bec Zagłady (ed. Piotr Krupiński). Its author directs his attention above all to thedissertations and essays which engage the problem of the interpretative community in which the Różewiczian “traces” of this past are perceived. The text also features a question about the Polish narration (memory) of modernity, and, to be more specific, about the role of Różewicz’s works in the revelation and interpretation of the understatements, inconsistencies and adulterations. The review emphasises the authentic polivocality of the debate about the literary representation of the Holocaust in which the authors of the book participate.
Artykuł pod tytułem Śląsko-pruska „geschichta” w PRL. O pamięci regionalnej w reportażu Włodzimierza Nowaka Niemiec. Wszystkie ucieczki Zygfryda jest poświęcony problemom współczesnej pamięci o sytuacji niemieckich autochtonów na Śląsku po 1945 roku. Tematem artykułu jest również stosunek polskich mieszkańców tego obszaru do jego obcego dziedzictwa w okresie powojennym i obecnie. Na przykładzie wspomnień bohatera reportażu i jego biografii oraz rodzinnej tradycji, prezentowanych w książce Nowaka, opisywana jest zmiana ich postawy do śląsko-pruskiej przeszłości regionu. Punktem wyjścia w artykule jest założenie, że konstrukcja narracji pamięci wymaga w tym wypadku nie tyle wymiany jednej historii narodowej na inną, ile stworzenia wielowątkowej regionalnej metahistorii, w której mogą funkcjonować obok siebie różne, także alternatywne ujęcia przeszłość.
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This article is devoted to the problems of the contemporary memory of the situation of German autochthons in Silesia after 1945. The article also concerns the attitude of Polish residents of this area to its foreign heritage in the post-war period and now. On the example of the memoirs of the hero of the reportage, his biography and family tradition presented in Nowak’s book, a change of their attitude to the Silesian-Prussian past of the region is described. The point of departure in the article is the assumption that the construction of the memory narrative requires in this case not just the exchange of one national history for another, but the creation of a multi-layered regional metahistory, in which various versions of the past, including the alternative ones, can function side by side.
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