Rozmowa przeciw ekstazie. O kłopotach z autobiografią (nie tylko) komunistyczną
Talking against Ecstasy: Problematizing Communist Autobiography (But Not Only)

Summary/Abstract: Based on an analysis of key works of the interview genre in Poland, Czapliński outlines the development of the extended interview, which emerged in the late 1970s in response to the need for Stalinism to become open to social interpretation and to introduce a better understanding of it in social strategies aimed at fostering a culture of dialogue. Czapliński argues that these long interviews, which posited dialogue as a principle of culture, assumed the role of autobiography, which was seen as too unreliable under Communism. Both the political transformation of the 1990s and the right-wing and nationalist turn of the last few years, Czapliński argues, belong to the culture of monologue, which (like Stalinism) mistrusts autobiography. This is why in the years to come we can expect a great number of extended interviews tackling history and reopening autobiography.

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