Magdalena Zdrada-Cok concentrates on the process of recalling the forgotten events form the childhood of Georges Perec, the Holocaust rescuer. A long time after the event, the writer as a mature man, tries to regain his memory in a direct way (by means of reconstructing the memories) and indirect way (creating the fiction of the Utopian state being a symbolic reminder of the Third Reich).
Keywords: Georges Perec; Holocaust; reconstruction of memories; utopia
Ewelina Szymoniak raises the issue of the engagement of the modern literature, presenting the two co-existing tendencies visible in the attitude of the Spanish writers, i.e. escapism from the reality in the name of the creative freedom and the conviction that leaving the up-to date social problems aside makes the writer guilty of being an accomplice to the abuse of the capitalistic system.
Keywords: twentieth-century Spanish novel; literary commitment; a contemporary intellectual
Tom 24 Nr 2 (2023)
Opublikowane: 2024-06-17