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Tales Filled with Shame

Maciej Zaremba Bielawski: „Dom z dwiema wieżami”. Przeł. Mariusz Kalinowski. Kraków, Wydawnictwo Karakter, 2018, ss. 320. Włodek Goldkorn: „Dziecko w śniegu”. Przeł. Joanna Malawska. Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2018, ss. 256

Summary/Abstract: The text is a discussion and comparison of two books by authors representing the postmemory generation who fled Poland after the events of March ’68. Dziecko w śniegu by Włodek Goldkorn and Dom z dwiema wieżami by Maciej Zaremba Bielawski, respectively written for Italian and Swedish audience, are to acquaint their primary readers with important cultural and historical events of 20th-century Poland. The present interpretative essay includes issues touched upon by the two authors: anti-Semitisms, the Holocaust witnesses’ silence, childhood in post-war Poland, description of communist realities, the role of memory. Differences between the writers relating to their attitudes, style, and the question of Jewish identity are presented.

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