Dokąd zmierza podróżny? O "Podróży" Idy Fink
Where does the traveller go? On Ida Fink’s 'Journey'

Author(s): Krystyna Jakowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Ida Fink; Jews; Holocaust; identity; literary journey
Summary/Abstract: An analysis of the motif of assuming ever new identities by the heroine of the 'Journey' allows to reveal a dominating theme of the novel, namely, the peril of losing one’s own original identity: its fragility/durability, its transmutation and its nature, as well as a sort of “doubleness” of its new true face. All of this seems to illustrate sociological research on the identity of the Jews living “on Aryan papers” at the time of the Holocaust. Besides, to some extent at least, it allows the novel to be placed in the genre perspective of a literary journey.

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