Auschwitz z Auschwitz czyli przepis na bestseller
Auschwitz from Auschwitz or how to write a bestseller
Author(s): Agnieszka HaskaSubject(s): Comparative Study of Literature, Studies in violence and power, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów & IFiS PAN
Keywords: Holocaust kitsch; camp kitsch; misery literature; Auschwitz novels;
Summary/Abstract: The Polish publishing market has recently seen at least several novels with striped fabric and barbed wire on the cover, embellished with the mandatory “...from Auschwitz” in the title. Most of these publications belong to the misery literature, or mis lit genre, and more precisely, one of its subgenres that can be called the Holocaust-camp kitsch. The paper is a brief analytical reconnaissance of the phenomenon of the “from Auschwitz” literature and shows its characteristic features and the various aspects of its enormous popularity among Polish readers.
Journal: Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały
- Issue Year: 2020
- Issue No: 16
- Page Range: 863-873
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Polish