Trauma czy raj utracony? Reminiscencje okresu PRL w powieści „Ono” Doroty Terakowskiej
Trauma or Paradise Lost? Reminiscing Polish People’s Republic in Dorota Terakowska’s “Ono”

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to describe the ways in which the past – the especially Polish People’s Republic (Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa – PRL) – performs in the memory of the protagonists of Dorota Terakowska’s novel Ono. Teresa, Jan and Irena vary in both perceiving those realities and passing these memories on to their descendants. After discussing different types of the memory of PRL and describing them using the concept of trauma the author focuses on Ewa – the main protagonist of the book in question. She has to deal with her own trauma, which is a consequence of rape. Shedding light on this motif enables one to see that Terakowska used fictional situations to voice some serious observations concerning the real problem of sexual assault and its social perception. Those remarks are supplemented with autobiographical element provided by parallel reading of Ono and Guma do żucia (Terakowska’s autobiographical quasi‑political text).

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