Playing with the convention of document literature in Hanna Sokołowska’s novel The scythe, or a criminal ballad about Nowa Huta Cover Image

Gra z konwencją literatury dokumentu w powieści Hanny Sokołowskiej „Kosa, czyli ballada kryminalna o Nowej Hucie”
Playing with the convention of document literature in Hanna Sokołowska’s novel The scythe, or a criminal ballad about Nowa Huta

Author(s): Adam Mazurkiewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: polish literary; metacriminal; ction; document; non-fiction

Summary/Abstract: Looking for new sources of inspiration, authors of crime stories begin to combine literary fiction with historical facts. Thanks to that they create quasi-documentary narratives in which crime serves as a pretext to show historical settings (in Hanna Sokołowska’s novel the setting are the 1970s). This way the reader can be culturally embedded in “post-memory.”

  • Issue Year: 30/2015
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 111-128
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish