A review of: Stanisław Rogala, Twórczość literacka Kornela Filipowicza. Kielce 2005  Cover Image

Recenzja: Stanisław Rogala, Twórczość literacka Kornela Filipowicza. Kielce 2005
A review of: Stanisław Rogala, Twórczość literacka Kornela Filipowicza. Kielce 2005

Author(s): Tomasz Mizerkiewicz
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Stanisław Rogala; Kornel Filipowicz; Holocaust

Summary/Abstract: Stanisław Rogala – the author of the book – interprets the prose in question using the traditional notions of poetics, while the reviewer questions this assumption and claims that Filipowicz’s texts belong to fairly distinct literary-history epochs, and thus the necessity of employing different poetics in their treatment. Instead of recognizing the features typical of socialist realist literature, it is worth examining the hidden but more significant relations of the then texts to the particular genres (covering e.g. the idyll); similarly, instead of analyzing the short stories’ personal and auctorial narration, the tropological character of the texts responsible for their “poesy” was to be done. Another problem arises when it comes to the analysis of war and concentration camps narratives as this subject must not be presented in the same way as all the stories. The issue of such narratives influences the entire language of contemporary humanistic sciences, and hence it is essential to point at e.g. such elements of Filipowicz’s war experience which have been absent from the erstwhile reflection on the Holocaust.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 222-228
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish