Doświadczenie wykluczenia widziane od środka. „Skrawek czasu” Idy Fink i jego polska recepcja
Experience of Exclusion Seen from the Inside. Ida Fink’s “Skrawek czasu” (“A Scrape of Time”) and Its Polish Reception

Summary/Abstract: Much attention has been paid to Fink’s stories. The numerous reviews are, however, devoid of the social context into which the stories’ protagonists were immersed from the outbreak of the war. They also lack of reflection about the majority–minority relation determining the situation of the Jews hiding in the Central and Eastern Europe. In defiance of the Polish critical assumptions which exploit silence as the only sphere of testimony or ask why it was that ‘people dealt this fate to people,’ the expressions formulated from the victims’ perspective a new description of the events can be found. To add, they also reveal the strategies of omitting the violence of the majority of the society in the dominating narration. It is only exclusion preserved in culture from which the experience of total loneliness and existential despair of the exterminated that starts to grow, and that escapes expression. Recognition of their status as non-humans in the Nazi practices and the majority of local people allows to discern and term the mechanisms of Shoah.

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