Magiczny ironista. O „Szamańskiej chorobie” Jacka Hugo-Badera1
The Magical Ironist. On “Shamanic Disease” by Jacek Hugo-Bader

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to analyze Jacek Hugo-Bader’s novel reportage “Shamanic Disease” (“Szamańska choroba”) understood as a blend of reportage and the conventions of magical realism. By utilizing ironic self-creation of the narrator in the reportage, Hugo-Bader’s discussion of belief in terms of problematization and thematization rather than as a fact-finding process through research does not violate the referential pact. The case study is a part of the discussion on both the literary reportage, which boldly combines the elements of journalism with licentia poetica, and on Melchior Wańkowicz’s “extension of the convention” of the reportage genre in Poland. In addition to the categories of realistic fiction and fantastic fiction – understood in the context of non-fiction – this paper will discuss a third element: magical fiction, which will be related to contemporary theories of performative ethnography.

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