Vol. 71 No. 2 (2026): NEW PHENOMENA IN 21 ST-CENTURY PROSE: POLAND - LITHUANIA - UKRAINE

Vol. 71 No. 2 (2026)

Published September 6, 2026
NEW PHENOMENA IN 21 ST-CENTURY PROSE: POLAND - LITHUANIA - UKRAINE

SCIENTIFIC EDITORS:

- Teresa Dalecka (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

- Jarosław Ławski (University of Białystok, Poland)

- Kamil K. Pilichiewicz (Łukasz Górnicki Podlasie Library in Białystok, Poland)

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Questions Literature Asks About the 21st Century

Anna Legeżyńska
11-24
Is this Poland? Three Prose Images of Community
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1165
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Barbara Zwolińska
25-43
“Nothing New Under the Sun”? On (Not)New Themes in 21st-Century Polish Fiction by Women. A Preliminary Analysis
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1169
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Anna Szawerna-Dyrszka
45-53
Polish–Lithuanian Dialogues. From Miłosz and Venclova to Kępiński and Kunčius
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1163
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Jolanta Doschek
55-63
Witold Wedecki and Polish Literature of the 21st Century
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1161
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Łukasz Zabielski
65-76
The Point of Death, the Point of Memory. Identity Politics in Juozas Šikšnelis’s “Horizon of Events” and Paweł Huelle’s “Castorp”
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1171
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Jarosław Ławski
77-96
Mickiewicz's Lithuanian Isthmus: Sinusoids of Identity
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1158
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Interpretations of Contemporary Prose

Krzysztof Korotkich
97-110
Wojciech Kass's Struggles with Form
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1177
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Dimitrina Hamze
111-124
The Semantics of Home in the Works of Olga Tokarczuk
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1174
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Agnieszka Czajkowska
125-135
Taming History in a Peasant Tale. About the Novel “Galicyanie” by Stanisław Aleksander Nowak
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1159
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Halina Turkiewicz
137-147
Gems Are Still Possible. On Waldemar Borzestowski’s “The Night Fruit Seller”
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1173
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Iwona E. Rusek
149-163
The Red of Love and Death in Renata Czarnecka's “The Carmine Queen” Novel
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1155
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Dariusz Szczukowski
165-177
“This Is a True School of Life”: Childhood in a PRL-era Housing Block According to Tomasz Różycki
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1162
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Anna Janicka
179-191
Observations on Recent Polish Biography: “Glass and Diamonds—Gabriela Zapolska in Her Era” by Arael Zurli
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1170
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Michał Siedlecki
193-202
Masonic Motifs in the “Historical” Novels of Włodzimierz Bolecki and Wojciech Kudyba
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1156
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Katarzyna Majca-Lipa
203-216
Intertextual Ethnography Based on the Example of the Novel “Pod słońcem” by Julia Fiedorczuk
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1164
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Central European Contexts of 21st-Century Prose

Michał Zając
217-227
“Riobczik” by Bartosz Połoński as an Emancipatory Novel
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1176
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Teresa Dalecka
229-238
Haiku for Vilnius
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1172
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Irena Fedorowicz
239-253
On Ewa Sobiewska’s Vilnius Saga: Between Fairy Taile, Romance, and Historical Plausibility
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1157
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Anetta Strawińska, Agnieszka Trześniewska-Nowak
255-266
Degradation of Ecosystems in the Road Novel "Dictionary of the English Language" by Akvilina Cicėnaitė
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1175
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Elżbieta A. Jurkowska, Ewa Gorlewska
267-285
A City Told: The Literary and Linguistic Creation of Vilnius in Mariusz Gadomski's Collection of Reportages “Kryminalne Wilno”
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1167
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Kamil K. Pilichiewicz
287-296
Literary Borderland Landscapes in “Małe centrum świata” by Krzysztof Czyżewski
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1168
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Dariusz Piechota
297-312
Nostalgic Returns to the Past. Musical Themes in Recent Central European Fiction
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1166
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Teresa Radziewicz-Choińska
313-325
Figures of Borderland Women: Between “Maranta” by Birutė Jonuškaitė and “Gorzko, gorzko” by Joanna Bator
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1160
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Taras Pastukh
327-334
Two Trends in Contemporary Ukrainian Prose (“100 Short Stories about War” by Borys Humenyuk and “Real Estate” by Anna Gruver)
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1180
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Liliia Lavrynovych
335-349
Documenting the War: The Poetics of Time and Space in Contemporary Ukrainian Literature
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1178
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Nataliia Mocherniuk, Olga Sheliukh
351-361
Genre Laboratory: Stylistic Experiments in Reportage (Contemporary Ukrainian Reportages)
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1179
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Review

Marcin Bajko
363-368
Čiurlionis: Correspondences of the Arts, Nations, and Friendship: Warsaw–Vilnius, Kaunas–Poznań: Rev. M. K. Čiurlionis, Korespondencja. Korespondencija. Vol. 1: 1892–1906, ed. R. Okulicz-Kozaryn, N. Adomavičienė, P. Kimbrys, ISBN 978-9955-471-71-4, Wydawnictwo Narodowego Muzeum Sztuki im. M. K. Čiurlionisa w Kownie, Kaunas 2019, pp. 552. Vol. 2: 1907–1910, ed. R. Okulicz-Kozaryn, N. Adomavičienė, P. Kimbrys, ISBN 978-9955-471-92-9, Wydawnictwo Narodowego Muzeum Sztuki im. M. K. Čiurlionisa w Kownie, Kaunas 2024, pp. 452
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1181
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Reports

Łukasz Zabielski
369-379
International and Interdisciplinary Academic Conference: „Psalms and Psalters in Culture and Literature: from the First Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the End of the 19th Century”, Supraśl, 12–13 February 2026. A Report
https://doi.org/10.36770/bp.1182
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