Półka literacka 2011

The article presents the most important and the most interesting prose and poetry works published in 2011. Most of them were written by well known authors. Those that particular-ly deserve mentioning are Saturn. Czarne obrazy z życia mężczyzn Goya by Jacek Dehnel, Bornholm, Bornholm by Hubert Klimko-Dobrzaniecki, Książka by Mikołaj Łoziński, Ziarno prawdy by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Włoskie szpilki by Magdalena Tulli and Drwal by Michał Witkowski. In poetry, the works by Konrad Góra (Pokój widzeń), Szczepan Kopyt (Buch), Marta Podgórnik (Rezydencja surykatek) and Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki (Imię i znamię) were enthusiastically received by readers. Apparently, year 2011 confirmed quite stabile preferences of the readers, which resulted in appreciation above all such publications that grounded in ‘middle literature’ tended to hy-brid form, transgression of literary genres, artistic expressiveness. Works that received the warmest readers’ response were those dedicated to the identity problems or facing the de-mons of the past.