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The early books by Mikołaj Grynberg containing conversations with survivors and their children allowed the writer to discover perspectives unknown to him before. With time these stories, combined with his own experiences, have become the basis for writing 'Rejwach'. In the article, while introducing the author's search for form, the author will show how the contemporary writing about the Holocaust has evolved. Grynberg, on the basis of testimonies he has heard, creates stories which many people affected by the Holocaust can identify with - people from the first, second and even third generation of survivors. Although fictitious, they have a universal value. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is devoted to reflection on Mihail Madjarov’s memoir prose, На Божи Гроб преди шестдесет години и днес (спомени, пътни бележки и впечатления) (To the tomb of Jesus sixty years ago and today (memoirs, travel notes and impressions), 1929), which is primarily dedicated to the author’s childhood pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In the article, I use the philosophical category of ‘bustling about’ (in Polish: krzątactwo), which was proposed by Jolanta Brach-Czaina, as a category that supports analysis of the strategies, described by Madjarov, of pilgrims experiencing everyday life in the three phases of their peregrination (according to Victor Turner’s classification). The analysis of the material takes into consideration the Ottoman historical context in connection with research on the testimonies of nineteenth-century Bulgarian hadjis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Copyright of Autobiografia is the property of University of Szczecin Press / Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Autobiografia is the property of University of Szczecin Press / Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecinskiego and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The article is a review of Arkadiusz Morawiec's book Literatura polska wobec ludobójstwa [Polish Literature and Genocide], the first Polish literary study to address the acts of genocide that occurred before the Holocaust and the ethnic cleansing after World War II. The reviewer recognises the researcher's scholarship and the ethical sensitivity with which he revises his previous theses about the uniqueness of the Holocaust. The book has been composed in a cross-sectional manner, the articles on Holocaust and Genocide Studies are accompanied by analyses informed by poetics and sociology of literature. Thus, the reader becomes acquainted not only with the historical realities of the described conflicts but also with the mechanisms of collective memory, which is shaped by both institutional activities (museums) and the reception of survivors' testimonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article refers to the well-known hypothesis that the identification mode of all stylistic phenomena consists essentially in finding the appropriate contexts for them. The main purpose of our considerations is to discuss the procedure for the use of collective linguistic awareness of past eras, verbalized in various documents, as one of the important links forming the network of conditions that support the process of stylistic analysis of old utilitarian and artistic texts. The distinguished context creates good chances for interpretation. Most importantly, it limits the time curtain that exists between the author and the recipient of the examined text, and brings him or her closer to the original rules of its reading. Of course, its usefulness is not unlimited. The main problem that we need to mention while discussing our practice is the difficulty of reaching the linguistic notions of the past. Their testimonies may be incomplete, and modern methods of reception defective. Despite these obstacles, the inclusion of the linguistic awareness of the past in the analysis of historical texts appears to be a factor that significantly rationalizes the research process in stylistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I try to lay out clearly and discuss selected issues encountered during the translation (with Eda Nagayama) of Bogdan Bartinkowski's collection of stories Dzieciństwo w pasiakach (1969) into Brazilian Portuguese. My text combines a scholarly dimension with one of self-commentary in order to offer some general reflection on the subject of the ethics of translating testimony. It consists of three parts. In the first, I provide a concise overview of the state of research on the connections between translation and studies on cultural memory. Next, I present a series of observations relating to the emotional dimension of the process of translating Holocaust testimonies. In the final section, I compare solutions adopted in translations of Bartnikowski's memoir into German, English, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Portuguese. In the conclusions, I try to define the memory-(re)productive role of translation: reproductive, in that the translation of testimony demands a respect for the truth of the signs present in the original and their rendering in the target culture; and productive (creative) inasmuch as it demands of the author of the translation a series of procedures with the aim of inscribing a universal theme within the specific field of cultural memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses testimonies of bystanders as presented in Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah. It proposes to apply norms and practices developed in analysis of victims' testimonies within Holocaust studies to the newly-emerging field of bystander studies. The Polish bystanders' utterances in the documentary were edited and simplified through the process of interpretation and re-translation, and this inaccurate rendition has been used in debates about the Holocaust since then. Lack of sensibility to this aspect of communication in Lanzmann's film may result in skewed interpretation of the bystanders' engagement in the scenes of violence. The analysis proves that without renewed examination of the bystanders' speech, Holocaust studies may lose some important insights. Signs of violence impact, traces of traumatization or brutalization, and the specific cognitive and affective response may be overlooked. The article calls for an equable epistemic approach to all types of speech emerging from the Holocaust, beyond the (debatable) divisions of its social fabric into victims, perpetrators and bystanders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to outline the definition of literary testimony and to define the position of the witness as an obliged writer. A basic definition reveals testimonial literature as a set of texts, ontologically uncertain, full of tensions and aporias. These tensions between testimony and document, testimony and autobiography, and also relations truth-fiction, individual-collective, experience-event delimit the area of literary testimony. In this complicated structer the witness, charged, limited by the obligation with is double. This is the obligation to take an action -- bear witness and the obligation towards the Other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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