Jak oszukać system? O koalangu Janusza Zajdla
How to Deceive the System? Janusz Zajdel’s koalang

Summary/Abstract: In his article, the author recalls Paradyzja (Paradise, the World in Orbit) by Janusz Zajdel, one of the most important social fiction novels – a literary trend popular in the 1980s in Poland. Zajdel is considered the pioneer of social fiction. His works are characterized by deep social reflection and emphasis put on the role of semantic-allusion language which allowed the inhabitants of an artificial world, called Paradyzja, to engage in free exchange of opinions and a game with their authorities to expose manipulations and lies of the system. This very unique language, called koalang (acronym from correlation–allusion language), is subject to multi-aspect analysis.

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