Kilka uwag na temat aktualnej recepcji literatury polskiej we Francji
Notes on the current reception of Polish literature in France

Summary/Abstract: Various factors influence the contemporary reception of Polish literature in France. Economic criteria have succeeded ideological constraints, but new developments in the memory process in Poland and France also play a major role, all the more so as they are not synchronised, especially when it comes to the history of WW2 and Jewish-Polish relations. An analysis reveals the combination of at least four factors: the role of literary translations (re-editions and new translations), the results of historiographical research, the evolution of collective memory in both countries, as well as the interaction with foreign - mostly Anglo-Saxon - publications on the subject. Through a cursory presentation of the reception of Polish literature for youth and adults in the early 2000s, we intend to show that WW2 and Jewish-Polish relations, among other themes, occupy a central position. The two "re-enactments" of the figure of Jan Karski published in 2009 in French novels by Yannick Haenel and Bruno Tessarech and the ensuing polemic, as well as the re-edition of the testimony by the great Polish freedom fighter Jan Karski are a telling illustration of what is at stake in the contemporary reception of Polish literature in France and, more generally, of all the issues regarding that country

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