Truth versus “the Postwar Truth”: Jerzy Peterkiewicz against the Idealization of the Communist Ideology in Postwar Great Britain
Journal: Ethos. Kwartalnik Instytutu Jana Pawła II KUL
Year: 2024

The aim of the article is to present the idea of truth, the postwar post-truth, and manipulation in the perception of the communist ideology as interpreted by some social movements in postwar Britain in contrast to the experience of the Polish émigrés. The problem is discussed in relation to two novels by Jerzy Peterkiewicz (Future to Let of 1958 and Green Flows the Bile of 1969), a Polish émigré poet, novelist, and translator. Peterkiewicz juxtaposes the Polish perspective on communism, based o