Udział cenzury w procesie twórczym na przykładzie Szopki 1956 Ryszarda Wierzbowskiego i Marka Grońskiego
Censorship office’s contribution to the creative process based on Szopka 1956 by Ryszarda Wierzbowski and Marek Groński

Author(s): Katarzyna Smyczek
Subject(s): Sociology of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: censorship after 1945; satirical szopka; satire; Ryszard Marek Polish People’s Republic; political thaw 1955–1956
Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the role played by the Polish People’s Republic censorship officials in the writing process of satirical texts. What constitutes research material here is documetation of censoring interventions (redactions) carried out by the Łódź Voivodeship Control Office relating to Szopka 1956 (lit. ‛Crib 1956’); political satire written by Ryszard Wierzbowski and Marek Groński. The article aims at describing the subterfuges used by both the satirists to compel readers; but also; to an extent; to recreate the primary version of the censored text; by working out a peculiar palimpsest – “scratching away” the censor’s pencil. An important aspect of this study is also a comprehensive editorial commentary allowing to reconstruct meanings that otherwise could not been grasped by today’s readers; which stems from the text’s embeddedness in the realities of socialist state.

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