“Memory is a Bitch.” Taboo and False Memory in Czech Reportages by Mariusz Szczygieł
Published in Zeitschrift für Slawistik
This paper concerns works by the Polish contemporary author and journalist Mariusz Szczygieł (*1966). I analyze Szczygieł’s Czech reportages (Gottland [2006], Zrób sobie raj [2010] and to some extent Nie ma [2018]) from the perspective of memory studies, focusing particularly on the question of taboo in collective memory and the issue of false memo...
