Georges Didi-Huberman, Bark, Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death as lager essays? Imagination and memory towards the idea of anus mundi Cover Image

Georges Didi-Huberman, Kora, Otto Dov Kulka, Pejzaże metropolii śmierci – jako eseje lagrowe? Wyobraźnia i pamięć formuł tytułowych wobec formuły anus mundi
Georges Didi-Huberman, Bark, Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death as lager essays? Imagination and memory towards the idea of anus mundi

Author(s): Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: Lager essay; formula anus mundi; post-imagination; post-memory; Georges Didi- Huberman; Otto Dov Kulka; Wiesław Kielar

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „lager” essays. These are Bark written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D. Kulka, their books are deeply related as the negation or at least as the questioning of the title of autobiographical book Anus mundi written by W. Kielar. Both authors do not describe Nazi concentration camp as „the anus of the world”. Their imagination is a post-imagination, their memory is a post-memory. In her paper Kuczyńska-Koschany considers the condition of the essay as quasi-genre after the Holocaust, after the genocide and in reference to the experience of a lager.

  • Issue Year: 47/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 121-133
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish
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