Crime fiction in the period of PRL (PRL crime fiction)

• Authors: Skotarczak Dorota
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

A novel with a socialist police motif is a subgenre of PRL crime fiction which appeared in the Communist Blok countries. Its characteristic features are as follows: the over-persuasive function, glorification of the socialist police (MO), inspirations which were taken from the poetics of social realism novels, and low literary standards. In fact, the PRL crime fiction constitutes a far more complex phenomenon. Along with ideologically biased novels of poor quality, appear those written at a high, professional level. The latter concerns the authors like Leopold Tyrmand, Andrzej Piwowarczyk and Tadeusz Kostecki. The most popular authors are Zygmunt Zeydler-Zborowski, Jerzy Edigey, Anna Kłodzińska and Helena Sekuła. The writing women, mainly represented by Barbara Gordon, set the female trend in PRL crime fiction, which is worth attention.

Keywords

EN

the culture of PRL; mass culture; crime fiction; a novel with a socialist police motif

• Publisher: Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Nauk
• Journal: Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture
• Year: 2014
• Issue: Vol. 3
• Pages: 77-84

Contributors

author

Skotarczak Dorota