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The Gaze of Preserved Objects

Summary/Abstract: The books of Zimra Harsányi and Magda Simon were published almost simultaneously in 2024 by the Oradea-based Holnap Könyvek. Both authors created emblematic works of Holocaust literature – texts based on contemporary notes that reached their final form in the 1960s, during the second era of Hungarian women’s Holocaust literature. Zimra Harsányi's book The Everyday Life of Madness was first published in Hungarian in 1966. The author’s figure, besides appearing in the final episodes of Alaine Polcz’s Woman at the Front, also appears in Andrea Tompa’s 2023 novel We Don’t Always Die. The way Zimra’s figure becomes a part of Tilda’s life in the Tompa Andrea novel precisely contributes to outlining the identity of the young protagonist, an identity that is difficult to find and was almost inaccessible to her earlier due to many silences. Ágnes Rózsa, Zimra Harsányi, and Magda Simon open the path for Tilda in the novel towards her own past.

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