How to describe “the world of pyramidal absurd” or grotesque in the camp literature
The main aim of the paper is to reflect on the various forms of the disclosure and the use of the grotesque in the Polish camp literature. Prisoners, authors of books devoted to life in the camps, experienced life in conditions that we did not normally recognize as impossible. In this sketch I try t...
Main Author: | Tadeusz Sucharski |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2017-05-01
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Series: | Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica |
Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/3264 |
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