Krajobraz po bitwie. Narracje klęski plebiscytu 1920 roku w reportażach Melchiora Wańkowicza i Leona Sobocińskiego

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the ways of presenting the problem of the 1920 plebiscite’s defeat in the Polish reports by Melchior Wańkowicz and Leon Sobociński. It attempts to show the indicators of change in the interpretation of this event during the decade filled with the censorship of World War II in the reportages of these authors. It describes how the Polish narratives tried to neutralize the situation of defeat and what lessons were learned from it. This paper asks questions about the dramaturgical potential of this experience of defeat and the mechanisms of both remembering it and erasing it from memory