Foreshadowing the things to come: Annihilation hidden in Zygmunt Haupt’s Galician stories
Foreshadowing the things to come: Annihilation hidden in Zygmunt Haupt’s Galician stories
Author(s): Marek WilczyńskiContributor(s): Małgorzata Olsza (Translator)
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Palimpsest; death; memory; The Holocaust; annihilation; Galicia;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the annihilation of the ethnically, religiously, and linguistically diverse population of Galicia and Podolia during WW2 and its metaphorical representation in Zygmunt Haupt’s Galician short stories collected in Baskijski diabeł [The Basque devil]. Memories are arranged in a palimpsest-like manner in Haupt’s short stories, which are often set in Zhovkva, a Galician town with which Haupt had a special bond. The only countermeasure against forgetting this lost world is memory, which unfortunately fades over time. The writer thus relies on fragmentary associations and retroactive imagination.
Journal: Forum Poetyki
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 114-131
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English