The Holocaust and the Grotesque: The Case of Artur Sandauer's Fiction

dc.contributor.authorWołk, Marcin
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-27T05:56:39Z
dc.date.available2025-06-27T05:56:39Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThe paper brings an analysis of the forms and functions of the grotesque in Artur Sandauer’s literary works as well as more general reflections on non-conventional means of artistic expression applied to the Shoah experience. In Sandauer’s fiction, the grotesque poetics serves not only to expose chosen aspects of the Holocaust but it also helps to create metaphors concerning the basic mechanisms and fundamental processes of the catastrophe.The grotesque in the works of this and other Holocaust writers is a much wider issue, worthy of thorough study. The authors variously employ images of dehumanisation, ironically reproduce Nazi propaganda, mock highbrow culture, expose the contradictions intrinsic in 19th and 20th century humanitarian discourse or in language itself. The grotesque makes readers uncomfortable, questions readymade interpretations and judgements, demands independence in taking a stance on things which are beyond understanding. That is why it becomes an efficient device of artistic expression concerning subjects which do not easily lend themselves to more traditional and conventional approaches.pl
dc.identifier.citationJednak Książki / Books Now 2016 nr 6, pp. 187 - 196pl
dc.identifier.urihttp://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/7211
dc.language.isoengpl
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Poland*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/pl/*
dc.subjectHolocaust fictionpl
dc.subjectgrotesquepl
dc.subjectArtur Sandauerpl
dc.subjectPolish-Jewish literaturepl
dc.titleThe Holocaust and the Grotesque: The Case of Artur Sandauer's Fictionpl
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepl

Files

Original bundle

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Holocaust and the grotesque.pdf
Size:
216.26 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format

License bundle

Loading...
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.34 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:

Collections