| Medallions | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Zofia Nałkowska |
| Original title | Medaliony |
| Translator | Diana Kuprel; Zofia Nałkowska |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Documentary |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Publication date | 1946 |
| Published in English |
Feb 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 49 |
| ISBN | 0-8101-1743-6 |
| OCLC Number | 42475803 |
| Dewey Decimal | 940.53/174386 21 |
| LC Classification | PG7158.N34 M3413 2000 |
Medallions (the original Polish title: Medaliony) is a book consisting of eight short stories by the Polish author Zofia Nałkowska.
The book was originally published in 1946, soon after the end of the World War II. In it, Nałkowska calmly related selected stories of Nazi atrocities in Poland and the fates of their victims. Nałkowska was a member of a special committee for the investigation of Nazi crimes in Poland, therefore she had learned facts directly from the victims and witnesses.
| “ | Considered a masterpiece of antifascist world literature, Medallions (written in 1945 and first published in 1946) stands as the culmination of Nalkowska's literary style -- a style that the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once described as "the iron capital of her art and one of the very few exportables in our national literature." Written in documentary-narrative form, with simple, concise, severely elegant prose, the book gives voice to the experience of victims and witnesses of the Nazi genocide. | ” |
Part of the text was published in English in the Introduction to Modern Polish Literature edited by Adam Gillon and Ludwik Krzyżanowski, before the complete edition was made available by the Northwestern University Press in 1999.