„Mamo, my nie jesteśmy nędznikami z Belsen! Ale mogliśmy być i bylibyśmy…”. Philipa Rotha kłopot z Ocaleniem
“We are not wretched of Belsen, mother! We were not victims of that crime…”. Philip Roth’s Trouble with Survival
Author(s): Piotr WeiserSubject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Jewish studies, Media studies, Studies of Literature, Communication studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: Rescue from the Holocaust; Philip Roth; Holocaust; Jews
Summary/Abstract: This essay is an attempt to understand the problem of surviving the Holocaust in Philip Roth’s prose, starting from his Conversion (1958) to Indignation (2008). Survival is a topic that returns regularly in Roth’s novels and in various contexts (American, European, Israeli), and is also a diffuse topic. The author of the article proposes a detailed analysis of Roth’s plots from the titular angle, compares his statements about the Holocaust and survival, confronts them and interprets them, remaining, so to speak, inside the text.
Journal: Autobiografia Literatura Kultura Media
- Issue Year: 23/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 137-151
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish
