Sprache:
Polnisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (2000) 182-195
Schlagwort(e):
Nałkowska, Zofia,
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Miłosz, Czesław
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Szlengel, Wladyslaw
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Littner, Jakob,
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Koeppen, Wolfgang,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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German literature History and criticism
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Polish literature History and criticism
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Jews in literature
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Judaism in literature
Kurzfassung:
Argues that authenticity in literary testimony on the Holocaust is conditional on the writer's awareness that he is speaking in place of the victims. Analyzes three writers' ways of dealing with this problem. Zofia Nałkowska, in her short story "The Cemetery Woman", utilizes a fictional "I" who distances herself from the massacre in the Warsaw ghetto, though its sounds force themselves upon her ear. Czesław Miłosz, in his poem "A Poor Christian Looks at the Ghetto", uses a metaphor reminiscent of a poem by Władysław Szlengel, and thus perhaps erects a monument to the ghetto poet. The situation is complicated in the case of Wolfgang Koeppen and Jakob Littner's "Aufzeichnungen aus einem Erdloch". First published in 1948 as the memoirs of Littner, a Jew who survived in hiding, it appeared in 1992 as a novel by Koeppen, supposedly based on only brief notes by Littner. But recently there came to light Littner's original manuscript, which Koeppen only revised and abridged. Remarks that a German should be doubly careful about depriving a Jewish survivor of his recognition as co-author.
Anmerkung:
An abridged Polish version appeared in "Literatura polska wobec Zaglady" (2000).
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