O kilku aspektach kryminałów Zygmunta Miłoszewskiego i ich recepcji w świetle świadectw odbioru trylogii o prokuratorze Szackim
On several aspects of Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s crime novels and their reception in the light of facts regarding reception of the trilogy starring prosecutor Szacki

Author(s): Leszek Bedkowski
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: detective story; movie; review;Zygmunt Miłoszewski;
Summary/Abstract: Aspects of the discussion being subject of the article are focused on three intersecting issues: popularity, evaluation and polemical readings of Zygmunt Miłoszewski’s novel sequence and they are captured in the perspective of reception evidence on the polish writer’s trilogy of crime novels, which is also a point of the undertaken reflection. The evaluated evidence confirms that the convention of „social” crime novel being implemented by the author of „Rage” is not inherent in trespassing the horizons of readers’ expectations and the feeling of repudiation (diminution) of crime novel genre rules or blurring its boarders; it also does not diminish the feeling of attractiveness of crime intrigue in particular parts of the series. This is tightly coherent with reflection on the condition of society, which indicates crucial impact of interpersonal relationships and social phenomena, being depicted in the novels, affecting the course and the final result of each of the described investigation. They expressly determine motivation of actions undertaken by the detective and criminals; “marks” and „scars” or even tools and methods being left after committing the crime lead to them, as well. Furthermore, „social” contents and moral background used in the trilogy of crime novels represent also a part of the author’s intellectual game played with the reader, which goes beyond the crime scene investigation. The combination of an attractive intrigue and a social diagnosis that both appear as the most crucial attribute and value of the author’s novels, becomes the source of disputes over the series of novels featuring prosecutor Szacki. Regretfully, they are ideological in their nature, alas, numerous records of reception, becoming a subject of political discourse, are losing the „literacy” aspect of the author’s crime novels; they also marginalize their perceptible contrariness, irony, internal dialogism, which undermine the uniqueness of ideologised interpretations and assessments.

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