Published: 2020-02-071

Citizens of the Universe – Poles in Jacek Dukaj’s Prose

Piotr Przytuła
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Section: Representations of the change of the 20th and 21st centuries
https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4723

Abstract

The fate of Poland and Poles is an important topic in Polish science fiction literature. Until
1989, writers could comment on the state and the nation only by means of metaphors, and thus,
science fiction was a great tool for describing reality. After the fall of communism, Polish authors
could finally speak about Poland and Poles directly. However, as a result, we received politically and
ideologically inspired literature. In this respect, the works of Jacek Dukaj seem to be an exception.
The writer shows Poles as the elite of civilization development. The aim of this paper is therefore to
identify certain characteristic features of the model hero of Dukaj’s novels.

Keywords:

science fiction, Jacek Dukaj, alternative history, Poles, Poland

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Przytuła, P. (2020). Citizens of the Universe – Poles in Jacek Dukaj’s Prose. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (7), 269–278. https://doi.org/10.31648/pl.4723

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