| dc.description.abstract | The subject of our considerations here is the genological aspect of The Diary of the
Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski. The genre of the work, revealed in its title,
could not have been treated as a certainty, because it concerned an artist who was distinctly
against all literary conventions. Therefore a question if his book was a diary indeed
seemed not unjustified. A close reading of Białoszewski's work let us distinguish
such structural elements which clearly placed it within the limits of the genre form
accepted in the beginning: the approach of an eyewitness taking part in the events
presented, the identity of the narrator, the author and the main character, the constant
stress on the time distance (and the retrospective narration connected with it), or the
chronological order of facts and experiences. But simultaneously many arguments proved
that the author broke numerous diary conventions on purposs. The genological
complexity of this prose was often underlined by scholars, hence the extremely rich "repertoire”"
of genre relations, such as the quasi-diary, a degraded rhapsody, an intimate
journal, a "stream of consciousness” novel, a historical chronicle, "story telling"... Białoszewski
mostly surprised his readers with a different, original form of his retrospective
story. The artistically unusual shape of his Diary was defined by its oral stylization, every-
day, colloquial speech. It was reflected in the characteristic narration of the work
in question: the ragged tone of elliptical sentences, anacoluthons, common speech,
mispronounciations, idioms, neologisms, onomathopeias etc. This is how the writer created
an interesting variation of the "bragging diary”, an extremely important work in Polish
literature, and possivly the most important work in Białoszewski's career. | pl_PL |
