Holocaust through a Peasant Eye – Grotesque Testimony in “Such a Greater Wedding” by Tadeusz Nowak Cover Image

Zagłada chamskim okiem – świadectwo groteski w „Takim większym weselu” Tadeusza Nowaka
Holocaust through a Peasant Eye – Grotesque Testimony in “Such a Greater Wedding” by Tadeusz Nowak

Author(s): Paulina Sokólska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego
Keywords: Such a Greater Wedding; Slept-through revolution; Grotesque; Transpassivity; Bystanders

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt of a lecture of Tadeusz Nowak’s novel Such a Greater Wedding in an anthropological key. The author examines a testimonial value of Nowak’s writing, interpreting a relationship between characters of different ethnicity: Polish peasants in a role of bystanders next to Jewish and Romani victims of Holocaust, through the concept of Andrzej Leder’s slept-through revolution. The paper also gives an insight in the Nowak’s use of grotesque, which serves to express dynamics of ressentiment and violence.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 49-58
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish