Żywioły przeszłości w kustodii pamięci. Uobecnianie odeszłego i przemilczanego
Elements of the past in the custody of memory. Making present what is silenced and gone

Author(s): Jan Malicki
Subject(s): Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: War crimes leave an indelible mark in the memory of their witnesses, but, at the same time, they come to define their post-war existence. Securely locked in memory, they often remain untold. When materialised, they may take one of the three forms: a historical source document; a memory of the witness, and a focused literary image. These three areas create a specific custody of the past, of the memory of war times. The inhabitants of this already destroyed world find themselves in the worst situation, as they are forced to live and create their reality anew. This was what happened in the space between Lvov in 1941 and Katowice in 1945: the epic quality of the human existence.

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