„Żyć dalej...” Ruth Klüger jako przykład późnej literatury „ocaleńców”

Abstract

STILL ALIVE BY RUTH KLÜGER AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE SURVIVORS LATE LITERATURE The article focuses on the literary works of Ruth Klüger, a Jewish writer from Vienna, living in the USA since the mid-1940s, Still Alive in particular. Still Alive , as a late testimony of a Holocaust survivor, eludes the process of generational change in the literature on the Shoah. Klüger has to face not only her trauma but also the memory of her near and dear who did not survive; she also confronts her individual experience with the institutionalized and collective memory of the Shoah and war. An important issue in her work is the reflection on the German language: the language which Klüger writes in and which is the language of the Holocaust perpetrators, in addition to the difficult questions about the Jewish identity of a woman assimilated into German culture, forced to abandon her home town and native language.