Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing
The author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses. He presents his answers which refer to the significance of Tadeusz Borowski’s camp...
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| author | Dariusz Kulesza |
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| description | The author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses. He presents his answers which refer to the significance of Tadeusz Borowski’s camp prose, the exceptionality of the Holocaust, and the differences in recording the camp experience domestically and during emigration. What is most important in the article is the indication of the opportunities available today, regardless of the virtually impossible to overcome difficulties, for at least a preliminary synthesis of Polish camp literature to exist. The starting point for that postulate is the application of external criteria: historical-geographical (which camps, when and where?), and historical and literary considering such categories and study perspectives as periodisation, genology, and comparative study. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6f707e837584e62bfb8fe126f6fdffa2022-12-21T18:48:43ZengLodz University PressActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica1505-90572353-19082017-12-0146810.18778/1505-9057.46.022299Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missingDariusz Kulesza0Professor; Chair of Interwar and Contemporary Polish Literature, Institute of Polish Philology, University of Białystok, Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 15-420 BiałystokThe author of the text poses questions why there has never been a historical and literary synthesis regarding Polish camp literature, Lager-themed in particular, as Gulag literature possesses at least protosyntheses. He presents his answers which refer to the significance of Tadeusz Borowski’s camp prose, the exceptionality of the Holocaust, and the differences in recording the camp experience domestically and during emigration. What is most important in the article is the indication of the opportunities available today, regardless of the virtually impossible to overcome difficulties, for at least a preliminary synthesis of Polish camp literature to exist. The starting point for that postulate is the application of external criteria: historical-geographical (which camps, when and where?), and historical and literary considering such categories and study perspectives as periodisation, genology, and comparative study.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/3042Polish camp literaturehistorical and literary synthesisTadeusz Borowskithe Holocaust |
| spellingShingle | Dariusz Kulesza Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica Polish camp literature historical and literary synthesis Tadeusz Borowski the Holocaust |
| title | Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing |
| title_full | Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing |
| title_short | Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing |
| title_sort | polish camp literature a few questions about a synthesis that is missing |
| topic | Polish camp literature historical and literary synthesis Tadeusz Borowski the Holocaust |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/3042 |
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