„Śmierć Romka” (Poznań 1956 protests in prose by Janusz Krasiński) Cover Image

„Śmierć Romka” (poznański Czerwiec w prozie Janusza Krasińskiego)
„Śmierć Romka” (Poznań 1956 protests in prose by Janusz Krasiński)

Author(s): Maciej Urbanowski
Subject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Polish Literature, History of Communism
Published by: Wydawnictwo Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne
Keywords: Janusz Krasiński; contemporary Polish prose; Roman Strzałkowski; communism; Uprising in Poznań in 1956;

Summary/Abstract: The article reconstructs and analyses the image of Poznań 1956 protests in the well known novel cycle by Janusz Krasiński. For the protagonist, Szymon Bolesta, the death of Romek Strzałkowski is particularly painful, an event extensively reconstructed in the conclusion of Niemoc, one of the novels. The execution of Romek and the propaganda lies about it, are for Bolesta the key examples of the criminal nature of the communist regime, and the Black Thursday he interprets as an unsuccessful national uprising.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 91-102
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish