The Text of Violence as a Problem for Reportage. On Like Eating a Stone and Today We’re Going to Draw Death by Wojciech Tochman
Łukasz Żurek (University of Warsaw)
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The article demonstrates that recent Polish works of reportage are closely connected with the realistic convention of representation. A linear flow of sentences (based on, as Jerzy Ziomek puts it, „the vehicular function of language”) projects a mode of reading that concentrates more on „what” is said than on „how” the content of communication is constructed. The second part of the article examines two reportages by Wojciech Tochman through a reference to Ryszard Koziołek’s concept of „the text of violence”. It is argued that in both cases the reporter creates a specifi c mode of readingm the main goal of which is to prevent the readers from treating his genocidal reportages as if they were realistic fi ctions describing purely fi ctional acts of violence.
The sample of Polish version of this article is available here: https://tekstualia.pl/files/c53fba71/zurek_lukasz-tekst_przemocy.pdf
