The article touches upon two university novels written in the first half of the fifties in the 20th century, namely Jerzy Stefan Stawinski’s Herculeses (Herkulesy, 1953) and Zdzislaw Wrobel’s Inauguration (Inauguracja, 1954). The author of the article shows the novels’ community character (elements of so-called personal key) and their close connections with socialist realism doctrine. Comparing the two novels, the author concludes that Stawinski’s novel, though faithful to the then writing models, contains a more genuine picture of reality of those days.
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