Abstract
The article demonstrates that recent Polish works of reportage are closely connected with the realistic convention of representation. A linear fl ow 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 specific mode of readingm the main goal of which is to prevent the readers from treating his genocidal reportages as if they were realistic fictions describing purely fictional acts of violence.
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