Reportage as Literature. Genealogy of Marek Miller’s Laboratory of Reportage and its Place
Reportage as Literature. Genealogy of Marek Miller’s Laboratory of Reportage and its Place
Author(s): Zygmunt Ziątek
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: reportage; Laboratory of Reportage; Marek Miller; literature; polyphony
Summary/Abstract: The present essay aims to answer the question regarding the place of the Polish reportagein the new historical and communicational situation (after 1989) dominated by electronicmass media. The entire genre is shifting towards literature. This is not a specifically Polishphenomenon, but here it coincided with a great generational change. The genre developmentwas partially blocked by martial law and its consequences, but it was also characterizedby a very strong position of its more literary type worked out by the previous generation,whose representatives regarded it as a testimony formula: the most popular kind of Polishstorytelling in the 20th century. All this has influenced the formation of three schools ofreportage writing that have been operating in the last 20 years. They seem to have beeninspired by three masters of the previous generation: Hanna Krall, Krzysztof Kakolewski andRyszard Kapuscinski. Their presence is proof of the important role the tradition plays insituating the contemporary genre within the history of Polish literature.
Book: Laboratory of Reportage. Method, Praxis, Vision
- Page Range: 59-77
- Page Count: 19
- Publication Year: 2019
- Language: English
- Content File-PDF