Zjawy, kociaki i Milicja Obywatelska. Literackie i społeczne konteksty Strachów w Biesalu Jerzego Putramenta
Apparitions, kittens and Citizens’ Militia. Literary and social contexts of Strachy w Biesalu (Fears in Biesal) by Jerzy Putrament

Summary/Abstract: The article looks at three aspects of the crime novel Strachy w Biesalu ("Fears in Biesal", 1958) penned by Jerzy Putrament. In the first part of the text, the author describes how this work aligned with the process of changing the official stand on action novels, a shift that was characteristic of the post-Stalinist thaw. The second segment of the article features an analysis of the metafictional and pastiche protagonist of Putrament's novel, revealing and extracting themes related to mechanisms governing the convention of crime fiction. The final part reconstructs the social and cultural context of "Fears in Biesal" – the novel refers to the processes of women's emancipation and gender stereotypes associated with these processes that were characteristic of the second half of the 1950s.

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