ISBN:
9783737016780
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (230 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2024
Series Statement:
TRANSitions volume 7
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tomczok, Marta, 1980 - Postmodernizing the Holocaust
Keywords:
Holocaust
;
Postmodernism
;
Prose
;
Fiction
;
Novel
;
Post-Holocaust
;
Holocaust Studies
;
Raymond Federman
;
Georges Perec
;
Second World War
;
World War II
;
Non-Jewish Writer
;
First Splendor
;
Leopold Buczkowski
;
Poland
;
Polish literature
;
Polnisch
;
Roman
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Postmoderne
;
Geschichte 1962-2014
Abstract:
Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with “The First Splendor” by Leopold Buczkowski and ending with “The Suspected Dybbuk” by Andrzej Bart. She also presents their rich relationships with selected foreign-language prose, which intensified especially at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. The culmination of the entire trend is a discussion around two novels: “Tworki” by Marek Bieńczyk and “Fly Trap Factory” by Andrzej Bart, which reveals the aestheticizing and post-memorial profile of Polish postmodernization and its advantage over the historiosophical trend. This monograph is not only the first such collection of post-Holocaust postmodern novels, but also the first comprehensive study of postmodernism in the literature about the Holocaust, which, thanks to comparative analysis, tries to analyze and explain the circumstances of the appearance and later disappearance of this trend from cultural landscape of the world and Poland.
DOI:
10.14220/9783737016780
