(Nie)znane, (nie)chciane, (nie)obecne. Ruiny powojennej Warszawy w polskiej literaturze reportażowej
(Un)known, (Un)wanted, (Un)present. The Ruins of Postwar Warsaw in Polish Reportage Literature
Author(s): Katarzyna Anna Frukacz-LewandowskaSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Local History / Microhistory, Culture and social structure , Fascism, Nazism and WW II, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Warsaw; ruins; World War II; literary reportage
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to problematize the way the ruins of postwar Warsaw are portrayed in selected works of Polish reportage literature. The analysis focuses on archival journalistic texts by Miron Białoszewski, written in the first years after the end of World War II, as well as contemporary reportages by Magdalena Grzebałkowska and Beata Chomątowska. The motif of debris in the aforementioned works is discussed consecutively using three antinomies: alienation and domestication, dislike and approval, and absence and presence. These categories help to highlight the ambivalence of social attitudes towards Poland’s ruined capital, destroyed as a result of the actions of the Nazi occupant.
Journal: ER(R)GO. Teoria-Literatura-Kultura
- Issue Year: 2/2025
- Issue No: 51
- Page Range: 107-123
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish
