A picture of a child and childhood in the face of war and the Holocaust based on the novel by Yuriy Vynnychuk „Tango of Death” Cover Image

OBRAZ DZIECKA I DZIECIŃSTWA W OBLICZU WOJNY I ZAGŁADY NA PODSTAWIE POWIEŚCI JURIJA WYNNYCZUKA "TANGO ŚMIERCI"
A picture of a child and childhood in the face of war and the Holocaust based on the novel by Yuriy Vynnychuk „Tango of Death”

Author(s): Marta Kaczmarczyk
Subject(s): Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Yurii Vynnychuk; Lviv; war; Holocaust; child
Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyses the work of the Ukrainian writer Yuri Vynnychuk "Tango of Death", paying particular attention to the image of a child and the creation of childhood taking place against the backdrop of multicultural Lviv and in the face of war, occupation, and finally the Holocaust. The childhood presented in the piece was built on the basis of the construction of paradise, while growing up and the accompanying historical changes implement the concept of exile from paradise.