Bezradność słów. Ante Kesicia „fikcja” o Zagładzie
Helplessness of Words. Ante Kesić’s “Fiction” on the Holocaust
Author(s): Maciej CzerwińskiSubject(s): Jewish studies, Croatian Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Ante Kesić; Croatian literature; representation of World War Two; the Holocaust literature; concentration camps;
Summary/Abstract: Czerwiński Maciej, Bezradność słów. Ante Kesicia „fikcja” o Zagładzie (Helplessness of Words. Ante Kesić’s “Fiction” on the Holocaust). “Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne” 12. Poznań 2017. Publishing House of the Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts and Sciences, pp. 61–77. ISSN 2084-3011. In the article one book written by the Croatian author, Ante Kesić, is taken into consideration. The novel Black Snow, published in 1957, narrates about a Slovenian young woman, Breda, who was caught by the Germans in Ljubljana (for her contacts with communist partisans) and sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp. Although not of Jewish origins she encounters the Holocaust of the Jews in the camp and gets pregnant with a Jewish artist. The novel conceptualizes tragedy of war and the Holocaust in a very experimental way, by using a range of modernist, avant-garde or even surrealist literary techniques. The author attempts to invent a new language with a new grammar that would enable to express something that is not expressible.
Journal: Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 61-77
- Page Count: 17
- Language: Polish