Kobiety w obozowej prozie Tadeusza Borowskiego
Women in the Camp Prose of Tadeusz Borowski

Summary/Abstract: The image of women in the camp prose of Tadeusz Borowski is presented through an analysis of three texts: Among Us, in Auschwitz…, The People Who Walked By and Stone World. The first short story is a preparation for the behavioural presentation of the camp. The shape of the work was mostly determined by the fact that it was composed out of reconstructed letters which Borowski had written in KL Auschwitz to his beloved woman and future wife, Maria Rundo. The People Who Walked By is a comprehensive image of the FKL, women concentration camp. In the Stone World cycle, the author of Farewell to Maria functionalizes the figures of women in order to show the effectiveness of camp mechanisms. In each of these texts Borowski repeats the patriarchally determined roles of women, but he also treats them as a personal, humanistic measure of the concentration camp catastrophe. He refers to the context of the Platonic triad, designated by the classical Greek philosophy, in which the measure of truth is beauty, which, admittedly, chiefly denotes the ethical assets, but finds its embodiment in outstandingly beautiful women.

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