Socrealizm – synchronia, diachronia i komparatystyka. Rec.: A. Artwińska, Poeta w służbie polityki. O Mickiewiczu w PRL i Goethem w NRD
Socrealizm – synchronia, diachronia i komparatystyka. A review: A. Artwińska, Poeta w służbie polityki. O Mickiewiczu w PRL i Goethem w NRD

Summary/Abstract: The review discusses a book on the functioning of the most important literary traditions in totalitarian countries (in PPR – the Polish People’s Republic, Pol. PRL, and GDR – German Democratic Republic, Pol. NRD) and on the use of national poets as means of propaganda (when introducing the system). Thus, the text describes socialist realism and its attutude to so-called progressive tradition (of Weimar Classicism and Polish Romanticism), and about Mickiewicz and Goethe, who were both purely instrumental in the PRL and NRD for years. An advantage of the book is not only a comparative view on the problems in question, but also a presentation of the disparities in the development of socialist doctrine elements in the two neighbouring Easter Bloc countries.

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