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The Auschwitz Virus
Przemysław Czapliński
redakcja@holocaustresearch.pl Author BiographyPrzemysław Czapliński, full professor, 20th- and 21st-century literature historian, essayist, translator, literary critic, and co-founder of the Literary Anthropology Department of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Research interests: 20thand 21st-century literature history, literary sociology and anthropology, literature of late Holocaust testimonies, oral literature, and 20th-century esthetics. He has written over 10 books; recently published Resztki nowoczesności (2011) and Poruszona mapa. Wyobraźnia geograficzno-kulturowa polskiej literatury przełomu XX i XXI wieku (2016); editor and co-editor of numerous collective publications – recently: Zagłada. Współczesne problemy rozumienia i przedstawiania (2009, together with Ewa Domańska), Jaka antropologia literatury jest dzisiaj możliwa
(2010, together with Anna Legeżyńska and Marcin Jaworski), and Poetyka migracji. Doświadczenie granic w polskiej literaturze przełomu XX i XXI wieku (2013, together with Renata Makarska and Marta Tomczok). Together with Łukasz Zaremba he translated James English’s book The Economy of Prestige into Polish – Ekonomia prestiżu (2012).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4805-6471
Institute of the Polish Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. Holocaust Studies and Materials (2017), Pages: 317-127
Submission Date: 2020-12-06Publication Date: 2017-12-06
https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.723
Abstract
The article presents – based on a review of Sławomir Buryła’s book Tematy (nie) opisane – a polemic with the approach to the Holocaust as an element of the historical process, an element, which can be isolated from modernity and to which loftiness can be assigned. Czapliński contrasts it with the conception of the ‘Auschwitz virus’, according to which morality, economy, and science after the Holocaust shall never be able to separate themselves from it.
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