Austerlitz i Róża, czyli zjawy jako bohaterowie naszych czasów (projekty literatury w nożyku profesora Tadeusza Różewicza i Austerlitz W.G. Sebalda)
Austerlitz and the Rose, or, Specters as Heroes of Our Time (Literary Projects in nożyk profesora by Tadeusz Różewicz and W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz)

Summary/Abstract: This comparative sketch juxtaposes the late narrative poem nożyk profesora by Tadeusz Różewicz with W.G. Sebald’s last work, the novel Austerlitz from the same year, in the context of literary hauntology. Both works return to the issue of the Holocaust after more than half a century and take up the question of the relationship of the living (survivors or those born after the war) with the dead; a relationship which being both necessary and impossible inspires the idea of literature as facilitating the “meeting with the dead.” Both works are also deeply critical of the modern civilization, the inevitable consequence of which were the two world wars in the first half of the 20th century.

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