Marcowe pisanie. O dwóch modelach przetwarzania historii
March Writing: Two Models of History Processing

Summary/Abstract: Czapliński offers a microsynthesis of Polish literature dealing with the expulsion of Jews from Poland in 1968. Three historical regularities determine this literature’s development: 1) the number of texts dealing with March 1968 has steadily grown over the years (signalling that the moment represents a key event and continues to be a central puzzle of modern Polish history); 2) the importance of fiction is on the decline while the literature of testimony (diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, interviews, quasi-documents) are playing an increasingly prominent role; 3) at the turn of the ‘80s and ‘90s, the dominant narrative pattern changed from the tragic to the melodramatic. Czapliński discusses both models as ways of presenting the birth, decay and (possibly) regeneration of the social bond. The crucial difference between them concerns the possibility of continued Polish-Jewish relations.

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