Kultura pamięci [Modi memorandi. Leksykon kultury pamięci, red. M. Saryusz-Wolska, R. Traba, współpraca J. Kalicka, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warszawa 2014, ss. 592.]

The article is a short presentation of a very important and precursory work entitled Modi memorandi. Leksykon kultury pamięci, edited by Magdalena Saryusz- Wolska, Robert Traba and Joanna Kalicka, published in Warsaw (2014). The work, written by 101 authors (historians, sociologists, literary scholars and members of other disciplines of the humanities), contains 180 articles which belong to the dis- course analyzing the culture of memory (‘memory studies’) and presents the most important aspects of the so called ‘mnemonic turns’ (or: ‘memory turns’) which took place in the 1980s and 1990s and which last till the present day.