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A Few Comments on Anna Bikont’s Cena
Marek Bieńczyk
marek.bienczyk@ibl.waw.pl Bioliterary historian, essayist, novelist and translator. He works at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor of the Institute. He deals with Romantic literature as well as Polish and world literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. In his scientific, essayistic and novelistic works, he deals with the subject of the experience of loss. Laureate of the Górskich, Awards them. Reymont Award and the Nike Literary Award in 2012 for the collection of essays Książka twarzy / The Book of Faces
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9411-8389
Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 18 (2022), pages: 591-598
Publication date: 2023-03-11
Abstract
The author’s reflections are not a review of Anna Bikont’s Cena in the strict sense of this word. Instead, the author uses her book to reflect on the issues it raises. What does the proper name mean to the survivors? What is the survivors’ escape from post-war Poland, not only from the historical, but also from the philosophical point of view? How should one understand the concept of gratitude to those who helped Jewish children during and after the war? What is the testimony’s status? What is the connection between memory and imagination when we talk and write about the Holocaust?
Keywords
Holocaust, children, survival, escape, proper name, gratitude, memory, imagination, tribalism
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