Georges Didi-Huberman, Bark, Otto Dov Kulka, Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death as lager essays? Imagination and memory towards the idea of anus mundi

The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „lager” essays. These are Bark written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D. Kulka, their books are deeply related as the negation or at least as the questioning of the title of aut...

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Main Author: Katarzyna Kuczyńska-Koschany
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2018-01-01
Series:Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/polonica/article/view/3161
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Summary:The article is an attempt at interpretation of two essays, which may be called „lager” essays. These are Bark written by G. Didi-Huberman and Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death written by O.D. Kulka, their books are deeply related as the negation or at least as the questioning of the title of autobiographical book Anus mundi written by W. Kielar. Both authors do not describe Nazi concentration camp as „the anus of the world”. Their imagination is a post-imagination, their memory is a post-memory. In her paper Kuczyńska-Koschany considers the condition of the essay as quasi-genre after the Holocaust, after the genocide and in reference to the experience of a lager.
ISSN:1505-9057
2353-1908