Nasze dwudziestolecie 1989–2009
Our twenty years 1989-2009

Summary/Abstract: The author of this historical and literary mini essay attempts to objectify their own ambivalent evaluation of the output of Polish literature of the period between 1989-2009 in two ways: through comparing this period with the two decades between WWI and WWII, and through presenting the most important critical-literary debates about the strong and the weak sides of an artistic output of the generation of the writers born after the year 1960. Opinions of prominent critics on the subject of the value of this output seem to evolve more clearly from the initial enthusiasm to the growing scepticism towards the close of the second decade, when constructors of the turning point myth in Polish literature after 1989 had to deconstruct this overoptimistic myth.

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