Pierwszy rekonesans
The First Reconnaissance

Rev.: Arkadiusz Morawiec, Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa. Rekonesans. Łódź 2018

Summary/Abstract: Arkadiusz Morawiec’s book „Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa. Rekonesans” (“Polish Literature towards Genocide. Reconnaissance,” 2018) is a collection of studies about the texts on the Holocaust and other crimes of genocide (from the slaughter of the Armenians to the massacre in Somalia). The author focuses on a philological analysis, brilliantly tracing selected threads and presenting their origins, though refraining from interpretation. The studies, referring to particular texts or their pieces, do not form a panorama of the topic in Polish literature. In a similar mode, the book neither poses questions about the relations between narrations of the Holocaust and the narrations of other acts of genocide (those that took place away from Poland), nor about cultural circumstances of such narrations.

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