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Klucz do domu, którego nie ma. Czarny potok Leopolda Buczkowskiego jako studium oikocydu
The Key to a House that Does not Exist: Leopold Buczkowski’s Czarny Potok [Black Torrent] as a Study of Topocide

Author(s): Karolina Koprowska
Subject(s): Polish Literature, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: birthplace; borderlands; World War II; Shoah; topocide;

Summary/Abstract: Examines the work of Leopold Buczkowski (1905–1989), especially his novel Czarny potok [Black Torrent, 1946], Koprowska uses the notion of the birthplace as a descriptor of the relationship between the individual and the community in the framework of a specific cultural and social configuration. Her goal is to determine how Buczkowski’s birthplace impacts the way he captures his experience of the Shoah and the war.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 283-302
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Polish