Półka literacka 2021

Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.05

Published: 2022-07-29

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)

Literary Bookshelf 2021

Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

Section: Surveys

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.05

Abstract

This sketch presents the most interesting and critically appreciated Polish fiction and poetry books published in 2021. Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska’s aim is to give a summary of what happened on the Polish publishing market in the past year. She addresses the question concerning the shaping of bestseller lists and whether the coronavirus pandemic affected fiction writers, poets and publishers by making itself present in literary productions. Her goal has been to examine what type of literature was most often published and which authors attracted the greatest interest among reviewers. A brief analysis and interpretation of ten selected books of prose fiction and poetry shows, moreover, how other commentators on contemporary literary life have written about them. The choice of texts was therefore based not on Nęcka-Czapska’s subjective feelings about them, but rather on their reception. Another goal of this sketch has been to present the diversity of publications and to draw attention to the most popular creative tendencies. Among the fiction writers and poets mentioned here are: Łukasz Barys, Wioletta Grzegorzewska, Jakub Kornhauser, Joanna Mueller, Daniel Odija, Kira Pietrek, Maciej Płaza, Andrzej Stasiuk, Antonina Tosiek, and Bohdan Zadura, i.e., mostly authors well known to the Polish reading audience, among them those who published new books after several years of silence. The list shows that particular recognition among readers (also the “professional” ones) was accorded to works whose authors tried to heal damaged identities, returned to the traumatic past trying to organize the “here and now”, and addressed communication problems. Readers also appreciated stories that can be described as socially engaged. The sketch falls within the areas of literary studies and literary criticism.

Keywords:

Polish literature of the XXI century , publishing market , bestsellers of 2021 , summary

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Nęcka-Czapska, A. (2022). Literary Bookshelf 2021. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 29(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2022.29.05

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Agnieszka Nęcka-Czapska

agnieszka.necka@us.edu.pl
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0874-0295

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University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

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AGNIESZKA NĘCKA-CZAPSKA – associate professor, Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.

Literary critic, literary scholar, author of articles and books devoted primarily to the prose of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Granice przyzwoitości. Doświadczenie intymności w polskiej prozie najnowszej [The Limits of Decency: Experiencing Intimacy in Recent Polish Fiction] (Katowice 2006), Starsze, nowsze, najnowsze. Szkice o prozie polskiej XX i XXI wieku [Older, Newer, Latest: Sketches on Polish Fiction of the XX and XXI Centuries] (Katowice 2010), Cielesne o(d)słony. Dyskursy erotyczne w polskiej prozie po 1989 roku [Bodily Revelations/Concealments: Erotic Discourses in Polish Prose after 1989] (Katowice 2011), Co ważne i ważniejsze. Notatki o prozie polskiej XXI wieku [The Important and the More Important: Notes on Polish Fiction of the 21st Century] (Mikołów 2012), Emigracje intymne. O współczesnych polskich narracjach autobiograficznych [Intimate Migrations: On Contemporary Polish Autobiographical Narratives] (Katowice 2013), Polifonia. Literatura polska początku XXI wieku [Polyphony: Polish Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century] (Katowice 2015). She is editor of the criticism section in “Postscriptum polonistyczne” and co-editor of the series “Literatura i …” and “Skład osobowy. Szkice o prozaikach współczesnych”

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2022)
Published: 2022-09-09

ISSN: 1898-1593

eISSN: 2353-9844

10.31261/PS_P

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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