Polski kryminał milicyjny jako literatura faktu
The Polish Militia Detective Story as Non-fiction Literature

Summary/Abstract: The present study is devoted to detecting the characteristics of the “non-fiction” genre in the militia novel popular in People’sPoland in the 1950s–1980s. The article consists of two parts. The first part presents a general definition of non-fictionliterature and its presentation in Polish, English and Russian studies. The time of the genre’s origin is specified and it ispointed out that such texts have appeared already before. A key feature distinguishing non-fiction from non-literary descriptionsof events has been determined to be the presence of an artistic style of presentation. Attention has been drawnto the possibility of weaving fiction into the fabric of non-fiction works. The second part of the study is an analysis of thePolish police novel made against the background of similar works of Soviet literature. This refers to the main characteristicsof the police novel, namely the linking of the action taking place in it to a specific time and place of events. It is this accuratetemporal and spatial representation of reality that allows the police novel to be classified as non-fiction literature, and thepresence of fiction justifies the mystification obligatory for detective literature.

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