Narodziny wolnego słowa – refleksje bibliografa
The Birth of Free Speech: A Bibliographer’s Reflections

Summary/Abstract: In the 1990s a research team of Polska Bibliografia Literacka [Polish Literary Bibliography]registered samizdat print material from the era 1976-1989. Kandziora, who was part ofthe team, now reflects on the new insights afforded by the project. The bibliographersdemonstrated how samizdat printing evolved into a mature publishing market. Heoutlines the styles associated with different journals and generations contesting thesystem and proposes an appropriate periodisation. Kandziora also questions the imageof underground publishing as a hermetic system and proposes to describe it both asa sphere of literary values and of works that transgress the division between official andunderground publishing, but also as a space in which new, liminal genre forms emerged,destabilising the boundaries of traditional literariness.

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