The article concerns the “memoirs from Sołówki” by Mieczysław Lenardowicz, published twice in 1930. Its shorter version, entitled Pamiętnik z Sołówek [Memoirs from Solovki], was published by the Towarzystwo Wydawnicze „Rój” ...

This article is an introduction to the reading of Mieczysław Lenardowicz’s “memoirs from Solovki”, published twice in 1930 as Na wyspach tortur i śmierci. Pamiętnik z Sołówek [On the islands of torture and death: memoirs ...

The article concerns the inclusion in the broadly understood Polish literature of the theme and motif of the Confinement Centre in Bereza Kartuska (1934–1939). I discussed in it the formation of the image of the concentration ...

The article contains terminological considerations concerning the term ‘camp literature’. In Polish literary studies it is most often referred to literature dealing with German Nazi camps, in particular concentration camps ...

The article concerns the literary representations of the Polish communist labor camp in Jaworzno (1945–1956), especially Seweryna Szmaglewska’s short story Amnestia zastukała do bram (1956, Amnesty knocked at the gates), ...

The article is a contextual interpretation of The Annihilation (Zagłada) by Piotr Szewc, which is one of the most outstanding “mitographical” works of contemporary Polish prose. There are at least three levels of reading ...

This article includes a terminological discussion regarding the notion of camp literature. Within Polish literary science, it is usually applied to literature raising the topic of German Nazi camps, particularly concentration ...

The metaphor of a journey arranges and explains the literary work by Ryszard Krynicki, its evolution, the presented world, and idea. The journey is one of the most important key words and motifs of Krynicki’s poetry, and ...

The article discussed the literary representations of the communist labour camp in Jaworzno (1945–1956), particularly the short story by Seweryna Szmaglewska entitled Amnestia zastukała dobram (1956), a novel by Kazimierz ...

This article concerns the influence of the most famous Polish poem for children: Lokomotywa by Julian Tuwim, particularly in three “Holocaust” paraphrases of this work, written by children in the ghetto and the concentration ...