O konieczności powstania warszawskiego. „Kinderszenen” i „Widma”
On the Necessity of the Warsaw Uprising. “Kinderszenen” and “Widma”

Summary/Abstract: The article studies the cultural memory on the Warsaw Uprising as present in Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz’s “Kinderszenen” and in Łukasz Orbitowski’s “Widma (Specters).” In the first part, the author of the article analyses Rymkiewicz’s mode of construction of memory on the Warsaw Uprising and dismantles the rhetoric structure of his argument. The interpretation leads to the conclusion that the hyperbole is a strategy of the uprising presentation and in effect Kobielska sees it as a deciding factor in Rymkiewicz’s affirmation of the Polish community. In the second part, which refers to Orbitowski, she analyses the ways and effects of building the novel as an alternative history. Kobielska suggests a reading of “Widma” as a metamemory text which shows indispensability of the Warsaw Uprising to Polish cultural memory. The final comparison of the two writing strategies shows the convergence of the two modes into a common figure of the uprising-hyperbole, a necessary element of our reality.

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