Journalistic or Reportage Novel? Notes on Jalu Kurek’s Interwar Prose Cover Image

Powieść reportażowa czy dziennikarska? Uwagi o międzywojennej twórczości prozatorskiej Jalu Kurka
Journalistic or Reportage Novel? Notes on Jalu Kurek’s Interwar Prose

Author(s): Izabella Adamczewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: journalistic novel; reportage novel; journalism and the novel; interwar Polish novel; nonfiction; Jalu Kurek

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on genealogical aspects of three interwar novels by Jalu Kurek – Andrzej Panik, Grypa szaleje w Naprawie, Woda wyżej) – which have often been described by critics as “reportage novels”. The author examines the past critical reception of the novels and the intentio auctioris. The main goal of the article is to suggest a more capacious genealogical term: the journalistic novel.

  • Issue Year: 28/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 253-272
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish