Rzeczy jako język dyskursu memorialnego w holokaustowych reportażach Hanny Krall
Things as a language of the memorial discourse in the Holocaust reportages by Hanna Krall

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses Hanna Krall’s Holocaust reportages in the context of the recent tendency in the humanities known as “the return to things,” initiated by the scholars associated with the Actor-Network Theory. The point of departure is the idea that memory better than history is able to deal with representation of the world war II and the Holocaust; the author of Hypnosis narrates it with the use of one of the memorial discourses, i.e. the language of things. With the use of reification the thing-stories (unlike T. Todorov’s human-stories) she talks about the death of six millions of Jews. The point of the article is to show in what way does the author employ the language of things to represent the borderline experience of the Holocaust.

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