„Antysocjalistyczne pogaduchy”. O narracyjnych polilogach lokomocyjnych
“Anti-Socialist Chatter”: Narrative Locomotive Polylogues

Summary/Abstract: Samborska-Kukuć compares locomotive polylogues in two novels set in the Polish People’s Republic – Antoni Libera’s Madame and Ryszard Ćwirlej’s Ręczna robota [Hand- Made]. Both writers portray social realities, such as general discontentment with the oppressive and repressive socialist state. The two novels are structurally analogous and share the same political message, representing the voice of the people in the postwar period of Soviet hegemony and its ideological derivatives (the Polish United Workers’ Party, the Citizens’ Militia and their Motorised Reserves, etc.). The means of transmission are polyphonic but complementary and homologous statements by travellers provoked by the artefact described. Despite the humour typical of popular forms, they can be read in terms of Józef Tischner’s personalist philosophy of the dialogue.

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