Limite, confine, frontiera: il trauma della guerra in Granice świata di Kazimierz Wierzyński
Limits, borders, boundaries: the trauma of war in Kazimierz Wierzyński’s Granice świata This article analyses the short story collection Granice świata (“The Limits of the World”) by Kazimierz Wierzyński. It emphasises two war narratives, namely The Patrol and Sentence of Death, in which the firstp...
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| Language: | English |
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Associazione Italiana Polonisti
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Pl.it |
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| Online Access: | https://plitonline.it/2023/plit-14-2023-48-63-marina-ciccarini |
| Summary: | Limits, borders, boundaries: the trauma of war in Kazimierz Wierzyński’s Granice świata
This article analyses the short story collection Granice świata (“The Limits of the World”) by Kazimierz Wierzyński. It emphasises two war narratives, namely The Patrol and Sentence of Death, in which the firstperson narrator (the author himself) experiences extreme events. Wierzyński’s characters commit terrible atrocities, and the writer describes their ruthless and unexpected reactions to highly distressing episodes. |
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| ISSN: | 2384-9266 |