Astonishment instead of scream. On Ida Fink’s stories Cover Image

Zdziwienie zamiast krzyku. O opowiadaniach Idy Fink
Astonishment instead of scream. On Ida Fink’s stories

Author(s): Katarzyna Sokołowska
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: Holocaust; short prose genres; minimalism; strategy of astonishment; perspective of a child; behavioral narration

Summary/Abstract: The subject of analysis in the article is Ida Fink’s stories considered in the context of the poetics of minimalism. The author posits that a key function in this writer’s work is fulfilled by a strategy of astonishment, which allows us to speak about Holocaust in a hushed voice.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 247-259
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish