Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica: Ostatnio dodane
Wyświetlanie pozycji 441-460 z 1304
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Jewhen Małaniuk – ukraiński pisarz obozowy
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)The article exposes works of Jewhen Małaniuk, Ukrainian poet, who debuted in internment camp for soldiers of Ukrainian People’s Republic situated in Poland. Disappointment caused by Ukraine’s institutional impotence and ... -
Women’s hair in Lager narratives
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article offers an analysis of women’s Lager narratives in which the procedure of removing hair from female prisoners of concentration camps was reflected. It indicates the procedure’s cultural, social, and psychological ... -
“Birdless Sky”. On one of the topoi in Lager literature (and its fringes)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The aim of the article is to indicate a recurring motif in the writings devoted to Nazi concentration camps. In many of the accounts of male and female internees the camp was described as a place “where birds did not sing”. ... -
Report and lament – Zalman Gradowski’s notes from Auschwitz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The notes by Zalman Gradowski, one of the leaders of the rebellion of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, are one of the most important Holocaust documents created by its victims right from its epicentre as the crime ... -
Jaworzno. Invisibility
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discussed the literary representations of the communist labour camp in Jaworzno (1945–1956), particularly the short story by Seweryna Szmaglewska entitled Amnestia zastukała dobram (1956), a novel by Kazimierz ... -
Lager – literature – zones of silence
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article reconstructs the most important issues on the map of Polish lager prose, those that are ignored, inconvenient for readers or authors, and sometimes for both. The author of the essay also presents the zones of ... -
DP camp – literary accounts of the life “in between” An invitation to the topic
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article constitutes a preliminary attempt at reading from literature the condition of the survivors – people interned in German displaced persons’ camps immediately after WWII. In that context, the author considers the ... -
How to describe “the world of colossal absurd”? On the grotesque in Gulag literature
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The main aim of the paper is to reflect on the various forms of the disclosure and the use of the grotesque in the Polish camp literature. Prisoners, authors of books devoted to life in the camps, experienced life in ... -
Polish camp literature. A few questions about a synthesis that is missing
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)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 ... -
Georges Didi-Huberman, Écorces, and Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death – as Lager essays? Imagination and remembrance of the title formulations in relation to the formulation “anus mundi”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „Lager” essays. These are Écorces written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D. Kulka, their books are ... -
A flawed portrait. The image of Zofia Kossak in the accounts of former Birkenau female internees
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article indicates how the figure of Zofia Kossak has been recorded in the unpublished accounts by former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau female internees who during their internment came into contact with the famous writer and ... -
Survival strategy. The Death Brigade by Leon Weliczker
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the account by Leon Weliczker (The Death Brigade) who belonged to the Sonderkommando in the Janowska camp. When describing everyday life centring on the removal of corpses, Weliczker also revealed his ... -
Camp literature. Introduction
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)This article includes a terminological discussion regarding the notion of camp literature. Within Polish literary science, it is usually applied to literature raising the topic of German Nazi camps, particularly concentration ... -
Freedom and possession in the letters of Andrzej Bobkowski
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)For Bobkowski, to maintain personal freedom based on material independence achieved through his own work was a fundamental existential issue. Freedom and financial independence were: a declaration, a life’s motto and an ... -
Parables of Un-freedom: Novels about the Spanish Inquisition in post-1956 People’s Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article examines three post-1956 novels ostensibly about the Spanish Inquisition’s activities in Spain at the end of the fifteenth century: Jerzy Andrzejewski’s Ciemności kryją ziemię (The Inquisitors, 1957), Julian ... -
The multi-faceted nature of freedom in the life and works of Czesław Miłosz
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the issue of freedom in the work of Czesław Milosz. This problem is analyzed in relation to prose, poetry, essay writing, journalism, as well as numerous interviews that Milosz gave throughout his ... -
Freedom of self-discreditation. On Witkacy’s letters to his wife
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)„If these letters are to be found by someone after my death, I will be brought into disrepute (…)” – wrote Witkacy to Jadwiga and he reminded his wife of destroying all the letters she receives from him. The question what ... -
Creator’s freedom. Schulz’s late projects
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article discusses the idea of creation coined by authors descended from the same, Austro-Hungarian cultural field, by: Bruno Schulz, Joseph Roth and Gustav Meyrink. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy created its own mithology ... -
Totalitarianisms as systems of lawlessness (Miłosz’s remarks)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)The article accounts for the gnostic individualism in Miłosz’s records. It shows that its essence is not freedom, but self-will. It argues that its premises are existential. Among them we can find the fundamental data of ...