Reportage I: Kapuściński, Szejnert, Grzebałkowska - Encounters with Polish Literature - S1E10

Polish School of Reportage: A Brief Overview with Beth Holmgren (Duke University)

Reportage or creative non-fiction is the most productive genre of contemporary Polish literature. It is literature of fact based on interviews with real people, on documentation, and on library research. It is more real than realist fiction, but employs the narrative and rhetorical techniques of fiction. It is akin to history, but is less concerned with data and statistics than how events in the past felt to those who lived through them. New institutions have formed since 1989 to train and cultivate journalists and to provide venues for publication of this new literature in periodical form and in books.

"Encounters with Polish Literature" is a new video series for anyone interested in literature and the culture of books and reading. Each month, host David A. Goldfarb presents a new topic in conversation with an expert on that author or book or movement in Polish literature.

Learn more about this episode, and see the biography of the guest on the Polish Cultural Institute New York's website. The linked page includes a list of selected works discussed or mentioned in this episode:
https://instytutpolski.pl/newyork/202...

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