Literatura jako „rodzinne memorabilia”. Jergović i Bernhard o ojcu
Literature as “family memorabilia”: the father figure in Jergović and Bernhard

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with second-generation memory and its literary representation. Kaszowska-Wandor’s comparative analyses of Thomas Bernhard’s novel Extinction and Miljenko Jergović’s essay “The Father” draws on hermeneutic and methodological frameworks provided by W.G. Sebald and post-memory studies. The father-son relationship that underlies both Bernhard’s and Jergović’s texts functions as a prism to examine how individual and communal memory relate to literature. To describe their relationship, Kaszowska-Wandor proposes the notion of memorabilia as a functional metaphor. Thus she contributes to current debates on literature’s place within discourses on historical and autobiographical memory.

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