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DOI 10.12887/34-2021-3-135-13



Wojciech KUDYBA, Remembering and Forgetting Masterpieces: The Case of Joseph Malègue


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The article describes the problem of marginalizing, in literary awareness, those contemporary works which may be regarded as deeply immersed in Christianity. A good example of such marginalization is provided by the fate of the output of Joseph Malègue, one of the most outstanding representatives of the French Catholic novel. The recent rediscovery of his works in France was particularly revealing about how deeply they had sunk into oblivion. Malègue’s oeuvre is absent from French textbooks of literature and from historical-literary syntheses, it has not been included in university courses and, in consequence, it has also failed to find its way to monographs and lexicons published outside France. For more than half a century, the writer’s works have neither appeared on the book market nor been discussed by scholars or literary critics. The author of the article attempts to answer the question why Malègue’s writings have been eliminated from the contemporary literary scene and from the scope of historical and literary memory.

Keywords: Joseph Malègue, Catholic novel, cultural memory

Contact: Katedra Polskiej Literatury Współczesnej i Krytyki Literackiej, Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych, Uniwersytet, Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego, ul. Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warszawa, Poland
E-mail: w.kudyba@uksw.edu.pl
ORCID 0000-0001-5868-3850



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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887