Autobiographical Book Reportage. The Genre and its Variations

 The first part of the article discusses issue Polish reportage and its generic variants. Next, author focuses on autobiographical book reportage, which following varieties are specified: press (journalistic or literary version) (literary popular version). The contemporary continues tradition school (from Wańkowicz through to Kapuściński, Szejnert Krall Smoleński, Tochman, Szczygieł Jagielski, name but a few), while autobiographi­cal constitutes very important broad current this type non-fiction writ­ing. analyses three recently published books: Dom z dwiema wieżami by Maciej Zaremba Bielawski (2018), Czystka Małgorzata Surmiak Domańska (2021), Kajś Zbigniew Rokita (2020). It turns out that genre variant is neither classic autobiography nor family saga, because most domi­nant feature reportage. This manifests itself in authors’ attempt understand explain not just their own biography history, world complex processes. For reason, each aforementioned writers undertakes documentary investigation only family’s lives, also entire historical socio-political context, order leave reader with historiosophical reflection present.