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Bitter Cinema. On Occupation in 26 Pictures by Lordan Zafranović

Hendrykowski, Marek · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Analysis and interpretation of the film fresque made by Croatian director Lordan Zafranović (1978), a masterpiece of European art cinema of 70s. Marek Hendrykowski's study describes relationship between poetics of exper…

"Prosthetic" Memory, "Aftersights" of Memory, Memory "Easy to Consume"? A Few Words About Visual Remembrance of the Holocaust

Kowalska, Urszula · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Discussion about the borders restricting (unavoidable today) aestheticization of memory about the Holocaust experience is still valid - in the article are recalled some different strategies of remembering the Holocaust…

Postcatastrophic Re-Reading of Tadeusz Hołuj's Puste pole

Adamczak, Katarzyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article deals with the re-interpretation of Tadeusz Hołuj's drama Puste pole (1963; The Empty Field) and its theatrical staging by Józef Szajna in 1965. Based on the drama I want to demonstrate how the artists - wh…

Yelling into the Silence and its Echos. Czech Shoah Poetry Written till 1960s and its Reception

Balík, Štěpán · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The literary reflection of the Shoah in Czech war and post-war poetry is very limited. Only a few non-Jewish poets have ever returned to thistheme (e.g. František Halas,Jiří Kolář,Jaroslav Seifert, Jan Skácel, Karel Kře…

Milo Urban's Journalist Writing and Memoirs on the Theme of the Holocaust (in Slovak literature)

Csiba, Karol · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article discusses selected texts of different genres by Milo Urban (1904-1982). The first text level is represented by fragments from his memoirs written in the 1970s and only published in the 1990s. An analysis of…

Helplessness of Words. Ante Kesić's "Fiction" on the Holocaust

Czerwiński, Maciej · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the article one book written by the Croatian author, Ante Kesić, is taken into consideration. The novel Black Snow, published in 1957, narrates about a Slovenian young woman, Breda, who was caught by the Germans in L…

From Report to Mythus. Jiří Kolář's Plays as Creative Transformation of the Shoah Testimonies

Firlej, Agata · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Kolář's plays Chléb náš vezdejší and Mor v Athénách, written at the turn of the fifties and the sixties, are the examples of aestheticization of testimonies and other texts about the Shoah. Kolář's creative path is in a…

"Abandoned Secrets". The Question of the Holocaust Narratives in Ukrainian Literature

Golebiowski, Anja · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The reportage Ukraine without Jews (1943) by the Soviet writer Vasilij Grossman is one of the earliest public reports on the Holocaust. Although Ukraine had been in the centre of the Nazi mass murder and single voices l…

Returns from Concentration Camps

Halamová, Martina · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article is concentrated on the Czech post-war literature, especially on the Czech treatment of the theme regarding returns from concentration camps in the novels written in the second half of 20th century and in con…

The Second World War in Polish Cinema. Recent Filmic Approaches and the Reception in Poland and Germany

Hiemer, Elisa-Maria · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article deals with the representations of history in contemporary Polish cinema. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, Jan Komasa released two fundamentally different films within one year.…

The Shoah in Poland in the Work of Jiří Weil: Translations and Literary Reference*

Hříbková, Hana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

Jiří Weil (1900-1959) is currently associated in particular with novel-writing. His works Moskva- -hranice (Moscow to the Border), Život s hvězdou (Life with a Star) and Na střeše je Mendelssohn (Mendelssohn is on the R…

Forgotten Prosaic Works (Forming a Literary Image of the Holocaust in Slovak Literature of the 1940s and 1950s)

Hučková, Dana · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The iconography of the Holocaust in Slovak literature between the late 1940s and mid-1950s was also created by texts that are almost forgotten today. The article discusses prosaic works by two Slovak writers. Some of th…

Postmodernity and the Shoah. The Reception of Works about Shoah in Middle and South Europe

Firlej, Agata, Pieniążek-Marković, Krystyna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

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Art in the Holocaust: On Josef Bor's Novella Terezínské rekviem and its Reception

Ibler, Reinhard · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The name of the Czech writer Josef Bor (1906-1979) is nearly forgotten today, although he was very successful with two works in the sixties. Both works deal with the Holocaust. The novel Opuštěná panenka (1961) is inspi…

Is There the Holocaust without a Film Music? Analyzing a Croatian and a Serbian Film about the Holocaust

Jambrešić Kirin, Renata · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This article implies that the impact of cinematic fiction on the capability to imagine and comprehend the trauma of the Holocaust is formed at the intersection of aesthetic, moral, social and ideological frames in parti…

The Holocaust in Slovak Drama

Kročanová, Dagmar · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article discusses several Slovak plays with the theme of the Holocaust; namely Ticho (Silence) by Juraj Váh, Holokaust (Holocaust) by Viliam Klimáček, and Rabínka (The Woman Rabbi) by Anna Grusková. It also briefly…

The Review of the Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Holocaust, on the Example of the Ninth Circle Interpretation

Matijašević, Željka · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The essay is an overview of the most notable psychoanalytic approaches to the trauma of the Holocaust, in the works of the Frankfurt school authors, and in the works of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub. The last part of th…

The Holocausts

Morawiec, Arkadiusz · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article examines genocide as a category that has been used and abused in various, especially historical, political, and ideological, discourses. It considers whether the extermination of Jews (the Holocaust) should…

House of Memories and Oblivion by Filip David: Literature, Memory and Death

Nikolić, Časlav V. · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The aim of this paper, is to determine the status of the Holocaust themes in contemporary Serbian literature. Philip David's novel House of memories and oblivion contains resonances of the civilization after World War I…

The Holocaust - the Border of Pragmatic Language

Prušková, Zora · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The theme of the paper is observing and revealing non-pragmatic language that, when dealing with deliberately chosen texts about acts of violence, leads to productive aesthetic disturbance. In its substance, this langua…

Reenacting the Past. An Essay on Götz and Meyer by David Albahari

Putyńska, Urszula · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

This paper is the analysis of Götz and Meyer (Gec i Majer, 1998) by David Albahari (b. 1948), the writer of Serbian and Jewish origin. His novel belongs to the Holocaust-literature and its metanarrative structure calls…

The Walpurgis Night): A New Variation on the Theme of the Holocaust. Several Suggestions as for the Future Reception of the Film

Skibska, Anna Maria · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

In the essay, I make an attempt to present several ways, in which the Western canon of literature, music, and cinema has influenced Noc Walpurgi. With regard to this, Marcin Bortkiewicz's film turns out to be a work mad…

Postmodern Erasing of the Shoah [Raymond Federman, Georges Perec, Anatol Ulman]

Tomczok, Marta · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

The article presents three strategies elaborated in the seventies of the last century by the postmodern prose, in order to tell us about the genocide. To name these strategies, the authoress makes use of the terms of bl…

„The Ghetto without Walls" - from the Social Exclusion to Terezín

Brodniewicz, Joanna · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

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From the Research on Jewish Motifs towards new Literary Studies

Firlej, Agata · Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne;

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