Paraboliczna opowieść o Zagładzie
A Parabolic Relation on Holocaust

Form as a Possible Account of Experience

Summary/Abstract: Postmemory is the key to understand the literary frame function in the Holocaust discourse. The contemporary generation of writers and literary audience’s approach to the Holocaust experience proves to be entirely dissimilar. The first symptoms of the phenomenon may be observed as early as in the texts produced in the 1960s, e.g. in Jerzy Kosiński’s novel “Malowany ptak (The Painted Bird)” or in Marek Hłasko’s short story “Szukając gwiazd (Searching for Stars).” In the context of postmemory culture, a literary genre functions as a communicative and reflexive figure used first and foremost to social memory criticism which denies and falsifies the subject of the Holocaust. It serves to work out a space of dialogue with the audience and a space of reflection on one’s own representative potential. The situation thus conceived is visible in the texts which exploit the parable literary genetic frame. The article is an attempt to provide the answer to the question concerning the possibilities of the Holocaust experience representation as seen in Marek Hłasko’s “Searching for Stars” parabolic short story.

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