Arkadiusz Morawiec Author

Arkadiusz Morawiec is a professor at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Łódź and a literary critic. His research interests primarily include the history of Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular literary texts representing totalitarianism, genocide (including the Holocaust), concentration and extermination camps. His research also concerns literature as a medium of memory. He has published six books: Poetyka opowiadań Gustawa Herlinga-Grudzińskiego. Autentyzm –– dyskursywność –– paraboliczność [The poetics of Gustaw Herling-Grudziński’s short stories: Authenticity –– discursiveness –– parables] (2000), Seweryna Szmaglewska (1916–1992). Bibliografia [Seweryna Szmaglewska (1916–1992): Bibliography] (2007), Literatura w lagrze, lager w literaturze. Fakt – temat – metafora [Literature in concentration camps, concentration camps in literature: Fact –– theme –– metaphor] (2009), Polityczne, prywatne, metafizyczne. Szkice o literaturze polskiej ostatnich dziesięcioleci [The political, the private, and the metaphysical: Essays on the Polish literature of the last decades] (2014), Zofia Romanowiczowa. Pisarka nie tylko emigracyjna [Zofia Romanowiczowa: More than an émigré writer] (2016), and Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa [Polish literature on genocide] (2018). He has edited eleven monographs, including: The Literature in/after Concentration and Death Camps (2017), Lager, łagier, obóz –– zapis. Obszary [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz –– records: Research areas] (2017), Lager, łagier, obóz –– zapis. Lektury [Konzentrationslager, gulag, obóz –– records: Texts] (2018), and Zagłada wobec innych ludobójstw [Holocaust in the face of other genocides] (2020).