“Inglourious Basterds”. Italian reminiscences of Artur Międzyrzecki’s writing Cover Image

„Bękarty wojny”. Włoskie reminiscencje w pisarstwie Artura Międzyrzeckiego
“Inglourious Basterds”. Italian reminiscences of Artur Międzyrzecki’s writing

Author(s): Mariusz Jochemczyk
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Artur Międzyrzecki; war; Italian campaign; reminiscence; trauma

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the process of individual, personal “memory work”. It concerns the traces of collective and individual military experience (something like post-traumatic stress disorder) in literary notation. It is interesting how the military trauma of the Italian campaign is revealed in the narrative, how it “tells” in the changing phases of the performance. The nature of this process is very difficult to describe (“fix” the experience and “blur” it, “constructing individual fate” and “denying reality”, “mythologizing facts” and “displacing the real”): it varies, opalesces in subsequent creative transformations.

  • Issue Year: 3/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 45-58
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish
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