Contemporary Polish Literary Reportage to the Issue of Originality, Unrepeatability, Intertextuality and Memory
2017
Abstract
This paper deals with issues related to crossing the paradigm of novelty, uniqueness and originality - and thereby maintaining a kind of memory of literature - in the contemporary Polish literary reportage. Some Polish reporters try to consciously apply the poststructuralist metaphors of recycling, bricolage or assembly to reportage texts; in contemporary literary reportage also certain intertextual processes play an important role, based on deliberate creation of relations between literary texts.
It all helps to keep the memory of literature. In this perspective we analyze selected reportage texts of Ryszard Kapuściński, Paweł Smoleński and Jacek Hugo-Bader.