Pamięć i zapomnienie ‒ osobista refleksja nad wielokulturowym dziedzictwem Karpat Wschodnich. W oparciu o pisarstwo Stanisława Vincenza i Aharona Appelfelda
Memory and Forgetfulness – Personal Reflection on Multicultural Heritage of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains. Based on Stanisław Vincenz’s and Aharon Appelfeld’s Oeuvre

Summary/Abstract: The present article analyses the selective memory in the oeuvre of two writers connected to the region of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains: Stanisław Vincenz and Aharon Appelfeld. Both authors – depicting ethnic diversity of the region – consciously make a selection of memories, staying silent on the conflicts and violence. That silence – being a consequence of war trauma and Holocaust – constitutes an intentional literary tool used for expressing their vision of the lost world. The comparative analysis reveals that despite the different perspectives – Vincenz as an adult observer of multicultural coexistence, and Appelfeld as a child survivor of the Holocaust – the writers employ similar literary strategies for depicting the lost multicultural Carpathian Mountains region. The present article constitutes edited, extended and amended version of the text that was originally published in 2019 in English in the academic journal Studia Judaica. In comparison to the original version, the text was supplemented through new arguments as well as an updated and amended bibliography.

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