Spojrzenie w przeszłość. O nurcie tzw. "późnej narracji archeologicznej" w dwudziestowiecznej polskiej literaturze fantastycznonaukowej
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The category of late archeological narrative, related to science-fiction, is distingushed due
to thematic criterion. The plot is based on a motif of excavations. The heroes, situated in
distant future, are usually research workers, studying the lost civilisation. However, they have
nothing but excavation for their research, because of discontinuity of culture, due to the erlier
great dissaster (for instance the total war). This is why their investigation turns out to be
vain: the argumentation is correct, but deduction is false, that is obvious for a learner. The
learner can easily recognize the lost civilisation, the subject of research in the presented world,
as his own contemporaneousness. Late archeological narrative is a kind o f mental experiment,
that presents limitations of science and of human capibility to make the past known. There
are few novels in Polish literature, representing this trend; in my opinion, it hasen’t exhausted
its artistic possibilities yet.