Szabasowa: labirynt obrzeży
“Szabasowa”: Labyrinth of Margins

Summary/Abstract: The author indicates the necessity of rereading Buczkowski’s Czarny potok within the context of contemporary debates about the Holocaust in Poland and wartime Polish-Jewish relations. That, which at present must comprise the object of a discussion and persuasion supported by scientific apparatus, is the brutality of the Holocaust, which in the so-called margins – provincial Poland – was witnessed by non-Jewish Poles and which for Buczkowski was a fresh wartime experience. It required not so much to be verified as rendered and evoked in a way that would bring such experience closer and not merely name and describe it. This is the objective of the novel’s difficult and impervious structure.

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