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Polish Literature of the Last Decade about the Holocaust – Attempts to Face the New Challenges
Justyna Kowalska-Leder
j.kowalska-leder@uw.edu.pl Author Biographycultural studies expert at the Institute of Polish Culture of Warsaw University, where she heads the Holocaust Memory Research Team. Author of: Doświadczenie Zagłady z perspektywy dziecka w polskiej literaturze dokumentu osobistego (2009) and “Nie wiem, jak ich mam cenić…” Strefa ambiwalencji w świadectwach Polaków i Żydów (2019); also of the academic edition of Renia Knoll’s diaries (2012); co-author and co-editor of the volume Ślady Holokaustu w imaginarium kultury polskiej (2017),
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4727-4431
Instytut Kultury Polskiej, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 10 (2014), Pages: 768-802
Submission Date: 2020-10-26Publication Date: 2014-12-01
https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.548
Abstract
New topics and formal solutions have been emerging during the last decade in the Polish literature which takes up the subject matter of the Holocaust. First of all, these texts echo the discussions triggered by Jan Tomasz Gross’ well-known publications, particularly by his book Neighbours. The voice of the “second generation,” whose representatives give testimony to growing up “in the shadow of Auschwitz,” can be clearly heard in the literary statements of that period. Interestingly enough, there have also been many publications addressed to children and young readers, who were told about the Holocaust in a mature way and with avoidance of simplifications or childishness. The subject matter of the Holocaust tends to be more and more boldly taken up by the popular literature genres, such as, legal fiction, crime novels, thrillers, some of which draw from the poetics of horror or psychological thriller. Not all of them can be deemed successful for some clearly border on kitsch. Nonetheless, they show the direction of the development of the literature that takes up the subject matter of the Holocaust in the context of the passing of the last witnesses and survivors.
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