– – – – –. Traumatografie Leopolda Buczkowskiego
– – – – –. Leopold Buczkowski’s Traumatographies

Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is to examine the ways in which traces of traumatic experiences manifest themselves in Leopold Buczkowski’s texts. As I argue, the sphere of their manifestation is first of all the graphic dimension of these books, which I call “traumatographies”. In later stages of his work, the author of a novel Czarny potok [Black Current] would develop an original concept of pausing the language as the only form of adequate testimony about wartime events. Buczkowski, a witness of the Nazi extermination of Jews from Podole, would not only be one of the first European writers to pose a question about the feasibility of creating literature after the Holocaust, but would also provide one of the most radical answers, one that demands a complete redefinition of the very concept of literature.

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