The Enlightenment inspired the Polish post-war authors to create thriller fables in different
ways: first of all, there were attempts to literary work out authentic histories, then some
authors “revealed” alleged inside stories of real events, finally some stories presented
completely fictional episodes set in the realities of Polish, sometimes also European, Age
of Enlightenment. The vision of the epoque, based on historical sources and studies, is
most often rather stereotypical and illustrative in character, but nothing else should be
expected in the popular literature. If there are any attempts to revise the view of that times,
they refer only to the traditions of popular literature as well (like in the novel “Choć nas
potępiają umysły zacięte...” written by Jerzy Siewierski, which clearly refers polemically
to Aleksander Dumas’s “Diaries of a Doctor”). Except historical studies, diaries and other
sources, also the literature of the Enlightenment is used in different ways. There are quotes
or crypto-quotes in the plot, characters often read books that were popular in that times,
we can also recognize features of some characters as typical for satire, comedy or novel
of the Enlightenment Ages. Sometimes the narrative-fictional patterns of the eighteenthcentury
novel are used as literary allusion. However, the most interesting works are the
ones in which authors managed not only to compare a sensational, spy or criminal episode
to the realities of the epoque, but also make elements of “the Spirit of the Enlightenment”
an integral part of that plot. It is especially visible in the novels of Siewierski’s or Jerzy
Piechowski’s.
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