Published: 2024-01-12

The Polish Militia Detective Story as Non-fiction Literature

Alla Kozhinowa Logo ORCID
Section: Światy non-fiction
https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.18

Abstract

The present study is devoted to detecting the characteristics of the “non-fiction” genre in the militia novel popular in People’s Poland in the 1950s–1980s. The article consists of two parts. The first part presents a general definition of non-fiction literature and its presentation in Polish, English and Russian studies. The time of the genre’s origin is specified and it is pointed out that such texts have appeared already before. A key feature distinguishing non-fiction from non-literary descriptions of events has been determined to be the presence of an artistic style of presentation. Attention has been drawn to the possibility of weaving fiction into the fabric of non-fiction works. The second part of the study is an analysis of the Polish police novel made against the background of similar works of Soviet literature. This refers to the main characteristics
of the police novel, namely the linking of the action taking place in it to a specific time and place of events. It is this accurate temporal and spatial representation of reality that allows the police novel to be classified as non-fiction literature, and the presence of fiction justifies the mystification obligatory for detective literature.

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Kozhinowa, A. (2024). The Polish Militia Detective Story as Non-fiction Literature. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 32(2), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.18

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Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-03-29


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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