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Marek Hłasko’s short story “Szukając gwiazd” [Searching for the stars] as a parable of the Holocaust and a mythical “initial event” in his )

Paweł Dobrosielski

redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl

kulturoznawca, tłumacz, student MISHu (na kierunku filozofia), doktorant w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej na Wydziale Polonistyki UW. Zainteresowania badawcze: Holokaust w kulturze współczesnej, filozofia hermeneutyczna

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1632-2325

doctoral student at the Graduate School for Social Research of the Department of Cultural Studies, Warsaw Uniwersity

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 4 (2008), pages: 408-412

Publication date: 2008-11-02

https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.279

Abstract

Marek Hłasko’s short story Szukając gwiazd was published in 1963. It has all the properties of a parable and is a kind of parable about the Holocaust. Its conventional character points to the ethical controversies related to such a kind of Holocaust presentation, i.e. we deal here with the temptation of universalisation. The hero undergoes a specific rite of passage from childhood to adulthood, centred around the Holocaust, being at the same time a mythical “original event”, underpinning the existential condition of “a man without innocence” – a figure designed by Marek Hłasko. The boy will later become all the men in the writer’s stories and novels. What is interesting is the superposition of a typical Hłasko motive, i.e. frustrated love, on the Holocaust situation, and the resultant impossibility of an authentic encounter between the I and the Other. Existential loneliness and being lost in the world are combined with the memory of the Holocaust.

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Dobrosielski, P. (2008). Marek Hłasko’s short story “Szukając gwiazd” [Searching for the stars] as a parable of the Holocaust and a mythical “initial event” in his ). Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (4), 408-412. https://doi.org/10.32927/ZZSiM.279

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                            View No. 4 (2008)

No. 4 (2008)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2008-11-02

Dział: Materials