Wartime Literature – Attempts at a Synthesis
Introduction
In this text, I take up a comparative study of wartime thematics within modern and contemporary literature. Until now, no work of scholarship has matched the momentum of Jerzy Święch’s monumental monograph in order to comprehensively analyse prose, poetry and drama pertaining to those “terrible times”12 Before I move on to more detailed statements, I will note a few basic observations indispensable for a comparative study. (...)