Published: 2020-09-25

‘Memory does not forgive’. On Biała Rika [White Rika] by Magdalena Parys

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Abstract

Biała Rika (White Rika, 2016) presents the trauma of a third generation. Magdalena Parys, referring to autobiographical motifs, recalls past events – the difficult childhood of the main character, specific family relations, and the tragic experiences of a so­‑called grandmother. The author of the article discusses the types of trauma connected with the experience of war, unsuccessful relationships within a family and the period of growing up. She concentrates on female characters, as the women in Biała Rika represent a wide variety of women with different features and values. The aim of the article is to interpret Biała Rika in the context of post­‑trauma with past torments and the work of memory always in the background of one’s consciousness.

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Żórawska, N. (2020). ‘Memory does not forgive’. On Biała Rika [White Rika] by Magdalena Parys. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 20(2), 141–162. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/PPol/article/view/9914

Vol. 20 No. 2 (2017)
Published: 2020-10-26


ISSN: 1898-1593
eISSN: 2353-9844
Ikona DOI 10.31261/PS_P

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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