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Article: THE DECADE IN PROSE.(Critical Essay)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Prose writing is always a bit slow to respond to events of historical magnitude. Thus it is not surprising that there was no sudden explosion of new authors or new artistic trends onto the Polish literary scene in 1989 or directly afterwards, despite the claims of so many critics who believed that a fundamental change was imminent--one which would utterly transform the face of literature in Poland. To be sure, such a turning point--both generational and thematic--did soon arrive. But again, it was marked not so much by an invasion of new books, as by an accelerated process of forgetting the old works and the old authors. The dramatic political transformation of 1989 dealt ...
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