Pamięć o Zagładzie w powieści Ewy Lipskiej Sefer
Polish-Austrian Weaves of Memory in Ewa Lipska’s Novel Sefer
Author(s): Grażyna Barbara SzewczykSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Special Historiographies:, Comparative Study of Literature, Polish Literature, History of the Holocaust
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: memory; history; the Holocaust; oblivion; layers of time; the Austrian-Polish transfer of cultures
Summary/Abstract: The subject of theoretical considerations and textual analysis is the memory and layers of time in Ewa Lipska’s novel Sefer (2009). The author of the article reflects on the weaves of memory in the life of the protagonist, who is “Viennese and the citizen of the world”, and answers the question of what the traumatic memory was which burdened his psyche and the independent development of his personality. The theme of memory connects the plot threads, the past and the experience of the present. Memory is also a glue that merges two different, and at the same time close to each other, cultures, Polish and Austrian, signaling their intertwining in the world of “global values”.
Journal: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 287-299
- Page Count: 13
- Language: Polish