Leopold Buczkowski’s war diaries: an anthropological reading
Leopold Buczkowski’s war diaries: an anthropological reading
Author(s): Maciej LibichContributor(s): Justyna Rogos-Hebda (Translator)
Subject(s): Anthropology, Polish Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Keywords: diary writing; war diaries; Leopold Buczkowski; trauma; experience; Black Torrent; genetic criticism;
Summary/Abstract: This text presents an anthropological reading of Leopold Buczkowski’s war diaries (1942– 1945), as well as a polemic against claims made by Sławomir Buryła and Radosław Sioma. The author of the article argues that the three notebooks deposited at the Adam Mickiewicz Museum of Literature (Muzeum Literatury im. Adam Mickiewicza w Warszawie) are not rewritten, final drafts from the 1980s–as the editors of Dziennik wojenny (War Diary, 2001) claim–but original manuscripts. The researcher describes the material aspects of the diary, especially those elements that distinguish it from other wartime diaries–these include unprecedented punctuation, enigmatic notes made in the margins, and illegible drawings on the blank pages of the notebooks.
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 33-34
- Page Range: 132-151
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
