Power, Law and Narration in Piotr Macierzyński’s Holocaust Poetry Cover Image

Hatalom, törvény és narráció Piotr Macierzyński holokausztlírájában
Power, Law and Narration in Piotr Macierzyński’s Holocaust Poetry

Author(s): Ilka Papp-Zakor
Subject(s): Polish Literature
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: Holocaust; post-memory; culture; narrativity; poetry

Summary/Abstract: Piotr Macierzyński’s poems often address the question of how culture has assimilated (or rather engulfed) the Holocaust and how the current post-Holocaust generations deal with the legacy not only of the historical events themselves, but also of the memory of those events made of representations and interpretations. This analysis attempts to reveal how, by means of various cultural topoi, Macierzyński captures the double nature of the Shoah trauma: the fact that one can neither understand it nor escape from it.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 06
  • Page Range: 89-95
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Hungarian