Współczesna powieść kryminalna jako głos w sprawie ważnych wydarzeń społeczno‑politycznych XX wieku
The modern crime novel as a platform for the expression of opinions about important socio‑political events of the 20th century

Author(s): Bernadetta Darska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: crime novel; history; memory; oblivion
Summary/Abstract: The article constitutes an attempt at examination of the modern incarnations of the crime novel in the context of the recurrent themes of the return to important socio‑political events of the 20th century. Crime fiction authors pit their protagonists against the past, either in the form of struggles with memory and oblivion or through an unequal fight of justice and the obliteration of guilt. Therefore we are dealing with ethically ambiguous deeds, with choices which reveal the peculiarity of their time and also with criminals who, although they do not cease to be guilty of the evil they perpetrate, are also the victims of the things which they experienced many years ago. It turns out that the past is part of the present. This is what both the detectives, the criminals and the victims realise.

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