When Night Passes and When Day Breaks – Between the Past and the Present. Borderlines of Holocaust in Filip David’s Works Cover Image

When Night Passes and When Day Breaks – Between the Past and the Present. Borderlines of Holocaust in Filip David’s Works
When Night Passes and When Day Breaks – Between the Past and the Present. Borderlines of Holocaust in Filip David’s Works

Author(s): Sabina Giergiel, Katarzyna Taczyńska
Subject(s): Serbian Literature, History of the Holocaust, Politics and Identity
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Holocaust; literature; Serbia; Filip David; memory; identity;

Summary/Abstract: The primary objective of the text is the analysis of Filip David's latest work. The Serbian writer is the author of the novel House of Memories and Oblivions (Kuća sećanja i zaborava, 2014), award for Best Novel of the Year by the NIN weekly (Nedeljne Informativne Novine). On the one hand, the output of this Serbian novelist is of interest to us as a continuation and representation of the contemporary discourse on the Holocaust in Serbia. On the other – we look at the literary realization of the Holocaust topic. The fortunes of the main characters in the novel (children who survived Holocaust) serve as the cases on which we present where the author draws the borderline of the ever-present Holocaust in their lives; how much and in what way the past affects their present; where the borderline of memory, forgetting and oblivion is.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 75-96
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English
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