Jedwabna czerwień. Kolor i materiał w powieści "W czerwieni" Magdaleny Tulli
Silky red. The colour and material in "W czerwieni", a novel by Magdalena Tulli

Author(s): Kamila Dzika-Jurek
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, History of the Holocaust, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Magdalena Tulli; "W Czerwieni" ("In Red"); Holocaust; fabric; colour
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an attempt to reinterpret "W czerwieni", a novel by Magdalena Tulli in the context of an autobiographic work of the writer, namely "Włoskie szpilki". Such an intertext allows for reading the novel in question as a record of The Holocaust experiences. The majority of researchers have qualified Tulli’s prose as the so called post‑modernist literature about nothing while incomprehensive motives in novels written by a Warsaw writer have been defined as “a writing extravagance”. The author of the very text, on the contrary, makes a belief about “the readability” of this prose a general hypothesis whereas on the example of "W czerwieni" shows referential possibilities of Tulli’s works. Discussing the motives pointing to the meaning of what is material in the world presented in the novel (porcelain, silk), as well as interpreting the meaning of the colours in the work, the author of the article concludes that the structure of the world presented, full of traces, frays and corpse is the way of expressing the Extermination.

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