Komiksy Marzeny Sowy. Marzi opowiada o dzieciństwie w PRL-u

• Main Author: Anna Podemska-Kałuża
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Pedagogical University of Krakow 2018-11-01
• Series: Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Poetica
• Subjects: the comic; the graphicalstory; PRL; the children’s narrator; the autobiographical form; the culture
• Online Access: https://studiapoetica.up.krakow.pl/article/view/4674
• ISSN: 2353-4583; 2449-7401

Marzena Sowa’s Comics. Marzi Talks About Childhood in PRL Polish screenwriter Marzena Sowa is the author of the comics’ cycle about Marzi, which was published in the years 2005–2011 and was an international success (the drawings prepared by Sylvain Savoia). The storiesabout the red-haired girl, the daughter of the workman and the resident of industrial city are the forms autobiographical, that show the reality of life in Poland in the 1980s. The prospect of a child, who is a careful observer of the adult world, has allowed the presentation of history of country in Central Europe at the end of communism. The cycle of Marzi presents an evocative picture of experience “last generation of PRL”, is the witness to the contemporary culture and the record of the struggles of society with the problems of everyday life in “difficult times”. Since its debut in 2005, the critic compares this comic diary from the time of puberty to the famous Persepolisof Marjane Satrapi. For the modern reader the books of Marzena Sowa is a valuable source of knowledge about Poland in the days of “Solidarity” and Lech Wałęsa, as well as the iconic comics that has a big power of social and cultural impact.